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by petepete 785 days ago
But it's frustrating that search engines are able to index the whole page, so things I don't have access to are listed in search results and I can only find out when I've clicked.
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Well, you could change your user agent string.
This hasn't worked well in a decade or more.

I used to pretend to be Googlebot a lot to bypass paywalls but I think these days there is either IP range filtering or more advanced fingerprinting.