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1. kuschk+r4[view] [source] 2015-09-06 22:10:29
>>dang+(OP)
I’d like to complain: For me, from Germany, the Paywall workarounds for WSJ do NOT work at all. This means I can’t read those articles, and have to use proxies to do so. This is not acceptable.

EDIT: One solution would be to use a link to a webcache, or screenshot, waybackmachine, or similar

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2. JorgeG+F4[view] [source] 2015-09-06 22:13:48
>>kuschk+r4
Same here in Spain, I think it's geoIP based.
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3. Michae+c6[view] [source] 2015-09-06 22:46:44
>>JorgeG+F4
A: This is something pretty terrible and should be in violation of search engine rules. So perhaps file a complaint.

B: Even Google gets on the geo-IP bus and will outright 404 pages in some zones with zero indication that the URL was ever OK. Recent example was the Google Solar Roof thing - in some countries, it was just a 404, nothing else.

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