OpenAI has disabled the Browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT to prevent users from bypassing paywalls and accessing website information without making a subscription first.
“We have noticed that by accident we provided a user-friendly functionality without trying to extract money out of you. We apologize for the convenience and promise that we will make sure it never happens again”
I guess that only applies to paywalls that can also be bypassed by 12ft.io, right? I.e. paywalls that open themselves up for indexing by search engines like Bing or Google.
I’m wondering why websites keep using fake paywalls when they can use a real one where the content isn’t available until user verification.
They do that to let search engines index their articles. Then they switch on the paywall an hour later or so but still get a lot of traffic (which is good for advertising) when people click on the link on Google etc.
The crawler identifies itself as a “robot” which can get past the paywall. When you browse using Chrome the site behaves differently. That’s why it’s so easy to get past by pasting the link into archive.ph
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