04-09-2020, 01:29 AM
(04-09-2020, 01:17 AM)Kurt Wrote: Here's a fairly new one...I do a google search and click on a link and it takes me to a page on a site like NY Times where I have to be a paid subscriber to access content on the page. I don't mind subscriptions, I just don't think they should be in Google results if I can't view the page. To me, this is nothing more than old fashioned SEO cloaking where Google sees one version of a page, but we see another.
This frustrates me too.
I was kind of surprised that a membership script I bought last year had that feature in it.
On the other hand, many of those paywalls for newspapers allow a few pages for free a month. Some of the more famous ones like WSJ don't though.