How does NYT get away from cloaking?
I noticed that NYT allows Google to crawl their new articles without login but if I access their news directly, it is asking for login.
On this result page, the first result is https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/opinion/lea-michele-funny-girl-second-chances.html which I can see all the content if I click it from the result page. But if I access it directly from my browser, I can't.
I am wondering if this behavior is considered as cloaking? Please enlighten me if anyone knows why it isn't.
Google bots use US IPs and the above article is visible in US without any login. For other users they have capped it. I checked it using a web proxy for a New York's IP and I am able to see the article without any login.
This is not cloaking.
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