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>>gyrova+(OP)
… seems like we the HN community should find a new site to mirror with.

>>deatha+J06
There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)

>>mr_mit+Zk6
Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.

There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.

>>wolvol+QU6
You can't impersonate Google. Sites check the source IP and they don't overlap with Google Cloud.

>>direwo+u27
You can for sites that can't afford the cost of keeping up-to-date with the Google IP list without which they can lose timely indexing. That is many.

>>chrisj+F77
What do you mean by “afford the cost”? The list is free of charge (https://support.google.com/a/answer/10026322?hl=en-GB) and maintenance can be fully automated.

>>otterl+uq7
I mean cost of server setup and execution.

>>chrisj+nA7
The server that is providing the content exists already. That's a sunk cost.

>>otterl+Rk8
"setup and execution".

>>chrisj+5m8
What serious operator of a service isn't budgeting time to implement and operate critical maintenance functions?

>>otterl+Pr8
Me for one. Adding an auto-updating IP address blocker to my personal blog site would probably cost more than setting up the whole site did in the first place.

>>chrisj+4u8
Have you actually priced it, or are you just guessing?

Are you doing regular patching? Automated restarts? Watching for security breaches? Or just praying it stays up forever?

Otherwise, respectfully, I would not classify you as a "serious operator." Your site could live or die, and it would be all the same to you. Or, you've handed it to a third party for management and they don't offer much in the way of resilience or stability.