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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

How does archive get the unpaywalled version? I don't think they pay the subscription for every single tabloid out there?

Asking for a friend.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The paywall is JavaScript but the content is still in plaintext below. The crawlers don’t read the JavaScript.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Disabling 3rd-party js has no paywall, but only the first paragraph too. Crawlers get full access?

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Btw, how come there is no search engine where you can sort and filter how you want instead of how they want? (except self-hosted i mean)

Pornhub has better searchability than, uh, all search sites i know.