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by d110af5ccf 1912 days ago
> Isn't that the website owners right though?

No. The internet is public. Publishers shouldn't get any say in who accesses their content or how they do it. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that they do is a bug.

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No, it's not. I can setup a login page and keep you out if I want. And I can do it however I want.
But your login page will be public and subject to being crawled.
My server, my rules.