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Just change your web browser's User-Agent to the Google crawler?
EDIT: That is, you can check the PTR record of an IP: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on. Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
You block the sources in your Google News feed. https://news.google.com/news/u/0/settings/sources?hl=en
Ewww. This might be the time I hit Duck Duck Go.
To be clear, I have no issue with paywalls. But they should be flagged as such.
"Article title: blah blah blah [Subscription required to view content]" even.
But they won't do that, because publishers, who buy advertising, will scream because they KNOW their click through rates would plummet. After all, even with a paywall, you still get plenty of metrics and advertising bumps on that first click to the site.
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on. Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on. Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
If I click a link on Google, I should see the same results that Google 'saw.' I think a fancier word for this would be 'trust.'
So far, I like Google's results and make use of their personalized results. One of the reasons I do so is because I trust the results, for certain definitions of trust that is.
If I can't trust that the site showed me the same response that it showed Google, we have an erosion of that trust. It may be time for me to seek an alternative.
Just change your web browser's User-Agent to the Google crawler?
That said, some publishers are smart and also check to see if your IP is in a Google range. EDIT: That is, you can check the PTR record of an IP: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
Just change your web browser's User-Agent to the Google crawler?
That said, some publishers are smart and also check to see if your IP is in a Google range. EDIT: That is, you can check the PTR record of an IP: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on. Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
There intent is to serve users with quality, truthful information. If all the quality information goes out of business and gets replaced with "Fwd:Fwd:Fwd: Obama failed New Orleans during Katrina!!" then Google doesn't have any more quality information anymore.
Google and Facebook are becoming acutely aware of how easily dishonest propaganda can propagate through their systems and are trying to find a solution for that. One step is making sure that people who have to make a living finding the truth for us all have the means to get paid.
What we desperately need is a real, useful micro-payments model where you can pay per-article. I'd be happy to pay you a few cents, or a dollar, or whatever, for each of the 3 or 4 articles I read on your site per month. But I'm not buying a subscription just to read 3 or 4 articles. The economics just don't work.
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on. Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That said, some publishers are smart and also check to see if your IP is in a Google range. EDIT: That is, you can check the PTR record of an IP: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
You can set the PTR record of an IP to a domain you don't control. Most ISPs won't let you do that, though. Also, whatever host you set as the PTR record won't resolve back to your IP.