I think they use the same thing that web crawlers use. If Google’s crawler couldn’t access the content of the page (or could only access a limited amount of content), it would likely rank far lower in search results
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
How does archive get the unpaywalled version? I don’t think they pay the subscription for every single tabloid out there?
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Btw, why is there no search engine where you can sort and filter how you want instead of how they want?
stoly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The paywall is JavaScript but the content is still in plaintext below. The crawlers don’t read the JavaScript.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Disabling 3rd-party js has no paywall, but only the first paragraph too. Crawlers get full access?