Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
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Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
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Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
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Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#4Do I want sites to know I'm in private mode? Probably not. So paywalls will have to find a different way.
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#5I don’t get it, this stuff is already behind a paywall already. There’s no darkening of the internet of news if news is already paywalled.
Looks like false controversy to me. All publishers have to do is demand a login and that’s it. Articles that are now behind a paywall will continue to do so.
There’s no difference that I can understand outside of a slight adjustment in paywall protection. Seriously can anyone explain what he’s going on about?
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#6I feel for sites that provide a service that want to bring users in, and still offer them some content up front for free.
Having said that as a user I should be able to be anonymous at will too...
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#7No. This isn't about Google unlocking paywalls. This is about Google fixing a bug where the presence of Icognito Mode could be detected with JS which is totally against the premise of Incognito Mode whose purpose it is to be undetected, not to be detected as somebody wanting to be undetected.
Publishers can everybody to be logged in in order to read their content. Then none of this applies.
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#8https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox (or https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome if you still use Chrome) generally works pretty well for me, at least for US-based news sources with paywalls.
As long as sites have "backdoors" around the paywall for SEO purposes, these types of extensions will work.
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#9God, the tone of that article was nauseating. Google isn't "unlocking" anything. They're just fixing a loophole in incognito mode that shouldn't have been there in the first place. And it's not like that was the only option for this. When these 'incognito detectors' first became viable, I just set up firefox where when you quit out it automatically cleared your entire history. So I would normally browse in Chrome, but then when I wanted to see paywalled contact I would just right click and open in Firefox.
Hopefully publishers will understand at some point that "Only show a couple articles free" is not a 100% technologically viable option. It will always be a cat-and-mouse game if that's the behavior you're going for.
Re: Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
#10There are going to be people complaining about the new requirement to have an account to view content.
To the publishers, you should _really_ use some kind of federated login. Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. but don't forget those who are willing to have a unique account.