[sksk]

While I agree that this is annoying, but how is this different from pay walls that vary from 1-2 sentences to blurred out sentences?

And what about sites that show content when the referrer is Google but show paywall otherwise?

[ikeboy]

And what about sites that show content when the referrer is Google but show paywall otherwise?

Google explicitly allows this. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en