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0 pointschipperyman5737y ago0 comments

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I used to change my user agent to be that of a Google Bot

Did you? I always just scrolled past the fold.

I think they changed it once SO started becoming popular (I may be misremembering the timeline, but I definitely remember being very frustrated about not being able to view the answers at one point)

daurnimator7y ago

I think they may have had a google-wall: if you came from google you could scroll down to the content, but if you were just browsing the forum you couldn't see the answers.

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aembleton7y ago

I used to change my user agent to be that of a Google Bot

daurnimator7y ago

Did you? I always just scrolled past the fold.

chipperyman573OP7y ago

I think they changed it once SO started becoming popular (I may be misremembering the timeline, but I definitely remember being very frustrated about not being able to view the answers at one point)

daurnimator7y ago

I think they may have had a google-wall: if you came from google you could scroll down to the content, but if you were just browsing the forum you couldn't see the answers.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse