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		stef25 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on ... Isn't it just a question of pretending to be a search bot ? Sites will allow google bot to bypass the paywall so stuff gets indexed.

input_sh 26 days ago | [–]

You could easily test your hypothesis yourself. It's not gonna work very well.

cactusplant7374 25 days ago | [–]

The owner must have subscriptions to these services. Some paywalls are absolute and it bypasses all of them with ease. I don't see it now but there was a time when archiving a reddit page showed the username that their bot was using.

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