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How do sites bypassing paywall work?
1 points by navingp 1105 days ago
How do sites like 12ft.io work? How do they achieve what they do.
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https://12ft.io/

>How does it work?

>The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.

>All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.