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IM Related Pet Peeves
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(04-09-2020, 01:29 AM)10x Wrote:
(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.

I think both the NYT and WashPo give 5 free pages a month. But with COVID I've been doing a lot of research and these two sites are good examples of authority sites and rank highly in Google. COVID makes it even worse...I saw a link that said something like "6 things you need to know when you go shopping for groceries". Interested, I click the link and it takes me to WashPo and I can't read the page. In a way it's similar to your peeve above about the IMer although probably unintentional. But really? You're hitting me up to subscribe using a potentially life-saving article?
   
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IM Related Pet Peeves - by Karen Dot - 02-27-2020, 02:32 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 02-27-2020, 03:10 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 02-27-2020, 08:00 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 02-27-2020, 08:15 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 06-11-2020, 04:05 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 02-27-2020, 08:39 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Koolphoto - 02-28-2020, 12:09 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 02-28-2020, 04:48 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-05-2020, 08:27 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Claire Koch - 04-08-2020, 04:41 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by 10x - 04-08-2020, 11:37 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-09-2020, 01:17 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by 10x - 04-09-2020, 01:29 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-09-2020, 04:07 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 04-09-2020, 11:40 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Claire Koch - 04-09-2020, 04:18 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-17-2020, 12:00 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 04-17-2020, 02:03 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by 10x - 04-17-2020, 04:26 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-17-2020, 04:39 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 04-17-2020, 09:59 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 04-18-2020, 02:35 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 05-18-2020, 10:31 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 05-19-2020, 03:17 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 06-08-2020, 02:03 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 06-20-2020, 08:58 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Jeffery - 06-21-2020, 01:01 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 06-21-2020, 07:44 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 06-28-2020, 04:24 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by LynnM - 06-28-2020, 08:29 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by JoeSpirit - 06-30-2020, 11:22 AM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by LynnM - 06-30-2020, 06:27 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 07-07-2020, 08:52 PM
RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 07-11-2020, 08:50 PM
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RE: IM Related Pet Peeves - by Kurt - 07-13-2020, 07:47 AM
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