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Links behind logins wall/paywall should be totally forbidden, Twitter, Quora, news websites, etc. I don't even get why they are indexed by Google, as this is cloaking, and forbidden by the ToS (+ gets annoying)


Google gave up on checking or enforcing these things because they'd otherwise lose traffic and ad revenue.


Yeah that would be nice, but pretty hard to enforce.

I just read until I hit the first popup, then I back out.

I'd downvote if I could.


Google has a rule where links from google can't be paywalled. So you can see Quora posts if you enter from a Google link, but not if you go to the URL directly.




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