{"id":18384,"date":"2017-07-18T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18384"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:07:19","slug":"how-paywalled-sites-permit-access-to-visitors-from-social-media-sites-and-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/how-paywalled-sites-permit-access-to-visitors-from-social-media-sites-and-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"How Paywalled Sites Permit Access to Visitors From Social Media Sites and Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elaineou.com\/2017\/01\/19\/how-the-twitter-app-bypasses-paywalls\/\">Isoroku Yamamoto<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14794271\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/elaineou.com\/2017\/01\/19\/how-the-twitter-app-bypasses-paywalls\/\"><p>However, subscription-based publications face a problem when users click on a link through Twitter or Facebook on a mobile device. Social media apps implement their own in-app browser, which generally do not retain cookies. Websites that require a user login must request the login every time the app is reopened.<\/p>\n<p>This makes for a cumbersome user experience. Thus, publications like the Wall Street Journal disable login checks when a page request appears to come from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It does this by inspecting <code>HTTP<\/code> request headers. The important headers are <em>Referer<\/em> and <em>User-Agent<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/publishers-and-the-pursuit-of-the-past\/\">Publishers and the Pursuit of the Past<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isoroku Yamamoto (via Hacker News): However, subscription-based publications face a problem when users click on a link through Twitter or Facebook on a mobile device. Social media apps implement their own in-app browser, which generally do not retain cookies. Websites that require a user login must request the login every time the app is reopened. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,25,49,96],"class_list":["post-18384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}