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by davidhakendel 2978 days ago
Does anyone have a non-paywall but legitimate link to the story?
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Incognito -> search for headline -> click
Thank you for this tip. Out of curiosity why does this trick work?
Websites like this want traffic from Google. To get indexed by Googlebot they have to show the bot the article text, and Google's anti-blackhat-SEO rules mean that you have to show a human clicking through from Google the same text that you show Googlebot. So they have to show people visiting through that route the article text too.