Are Paywalls allowed to show Google crawler full content but not users?

Question

Today I noticed the Washington Post I'd quite naughty.Even when you click through from a Google search, they still gate the article content behind a paywall. Clearly they fed the full article to Google bot and Google news, but then show a different page, sans article content, to web users.Is this a violation of Google search policy? If yes, does Google even care enough to enforce it?I think this sort of publisher behavior makes for a hostile and overall very poor user experience... Especially when Wapo is already bankrolled by greedy Uncle Jeff. But I digress.

lusbuab · Accepted Answer

Some news sites use certain Structured Data (schema.org, hasPart in combination with accessibleForFree:false) for that - telling crawlers about the content behind the registration wall / pay wall.

jzl · Answer

You can't cloak, which means serving different content.https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

altdataseller · Answer

Google does not care. They make the rules - not follow them.

2ICofafireteam · Answer

View their cached version.

wmf · Answer

Google has allowed this for years unfortunately.

jamjamjamjamjam · Answer

Become a robot and enjoy the benefits no captcha and no paywalls

arcastroe · Answer

You may be interested in 12ft.ioIt tricks sites into thinking you are a search engine so you get the full site without paywall