Google, and the other search engines, should develop a standard that allows a page to tell the search engine if it does this kind of thing. More generally, it should be able to tell the search engine which of these categories the page falls under:<p>• Freely readable with no need to register. E.g., Stack Exchange.<p>• Site requires login, but accounts are generally free. E.g., Quora.<p>• Site requires login, accounts are not necessarily free. E.g., Wall Street Journal.<p>• Per article fee. E.g., many scientific journals.<p>• Content not actually available online. E.g., many hits on Google Books, where they have excerpts of the book online so you can find it via search, but to actually get the full content you have to by the physical book.<p>Users could then choose to exclude some categories from their search results, or to have some shown ahead of others.
why should anyone install an extension to read a website that obviously does not care about the (life)time of it's visitors.<p>just stop reading quora and stop clicking on quora links (especially in the google SERPs) and the problem will solve itself.
I don't understand why any websites do things like this. Yesterday I tried visiting a link someone had tweeted for fab.com, only to find I had to sign up before I could view it[0]. Does this technique actually work for building a customer base? It actively drives me away, that's for sure.<p>[0] For fob's sake, you can't even view their <i>Contact Us</i> page without signing up: <a href="http://fab.com/contact-us/" rel="nofollow">http://fab.com/contact-us/</a>
I found this great little jQuery bookmarklet generator from Ben Alman:<p><a href="http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/" rel="nofollow">http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/</a><p>You can just paste this code in and generate yourself a bookmarklet to reveal the quora answers (should work on all browsers).<p><pre><code> $('.blurred_answer_wrapper').removeClass('blurred_answer_wrapper');
$('.with_signup').removeClass('with_signup');
$('.signup_cta_on_answer').remove();</code></pre>
The extension won't install for me but it is easy enough to follow his link to the user script that inspired 80% of the extension and just use that. Also easy enough to add the missing 20% as well. Great idea. I had noticed last week just how easy it was to manipulate the CSS on Quora to do this. Glad some people took the time to roll something up for the rest of us. I seem to be finding myself linked here more recently. :/
Erm... I am not getting any "spectacles" and I am not logged in. I don't even have an account with Quora.<p>Here's what I see - <a href="http://imgur.com/m9G1Q" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/m9G1Q</a><p>What am I missing?