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.

  • @15liam20@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    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

    • lemmyvore
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      1 year ago

      Or by using a browser addon that changes the way the browser identifies itself to pretend it’s a search engine crawler.