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by amorphid 3402 days ago
If you're asking how one would do that at a technical level, I imagine they would use HTTP Referer info [1]. Essentially they decided if someone was being referred to WSJ.com by a search engine, then show the whole article, else show the paywall.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer