While I absolutely agree with Google's motivation to keep the incognito mode functional, I find their response somewhat nonsensical. > Sites that wish to deter meter circumvention have options such as reducing the number of free articles someone can view before logging in, requiring free registration to view any content, or hardening their paywalls. What use would reducing the free article count be if you cannot reli…
> Turning into a strict registration-only site is likely also problematic because this could cause them to be downranked by - surprise! - Google, this time in their incarnation as a search engine. There is steps they can take to have a registration only website while allowing Googlebot to authenticate.
Ah, I wasn't aware that Googlebot supports that by now. Thanks for the info.