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Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Have you ever tried posting a redirect for a story? Then another user posts the direct paywall link, which promptly rises to the front page while your submission gets buried. This is an issue that needs a solution.

What is with this? I thought Google announced in the past that sites serving different content to its crawlers than real members would have those results removed from their index. Is this some ridiculous loophole whereby it's ok if the link works with a google referrer but not directly? So stupid. If the link is not truly open, it should not appear in search results, simple as that.

Yes, your parent link doesn't work, however the copy and paste the link into Google technique does. Refreshing the page activates the paywall.