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		cooljacob204 on July 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitru... Search Engines should punish sits that do this. They put up a paywall a second after loading so bots can scrape the data and advertise their site as providing answers when really they hide it behind a paywall.

rosywoozlechan on July 30, 2020 [–]

> Search Engines should punish sits that do this.

Google won't do that. They're already in trouble for stealing content from the sites they crawl, especially news sites. Google goes out of their way to enable paywalls so they don't look like they're anti-copyright or out to destroy news and content sites.

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