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- Tynian, on 03/13/2008, -3/+49@esengulov
What I don't understand about Experts Exchange is that they'll fool you into subscribing, but all the answers are READABLE at the bottom of each page (after their scrambled counterparts and a lot of adverts). So even Google Cache is not needed at all. - superheroboy, on 03/13/2008, -0/+31I have a feeling you've never seen the reply link.
- esengulov, on 03/13/2008, -6/+33@ foolawrence
I have a feeling that you haven't even read the article. Even though everyone knows about Google Cache, how many people actually use it to access Experts Exchange? - antivirus6613, on 03/13/2008, -3/+24Pron access anyone?
- Thinkman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+18You don't need google cache to read EE answers. Just scroll all the way to the bottom there are non-obfuscated answers. Don't believe me? Try it!
- novemberdream07, on 03/13/2008, -1/+15my guess is that porn sites are hip to this stuff and there goes anytime i would actually use these :(
- faizal5k, on 03/13/2008, -0/+9Agreed. I never knew about this. This is just freakin awesome.
- laddr, on 03/13/2008, -1/+10Must not have wanted to get his comment lost under the bury avalanche of foolawrence.
Awesome comment system... - tomgibbons, on 03/13/2008, -0/+9As far as I know you can no longer do this. However, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page you will find the full, unscrambled posts. I'd imagine this is because EE still want to provide the posts to search engines for indexing and are prohibited from serving different content to search engines than everyone else.
- hawk0168, on 03/13/2008, -0/+7you mean people DON'T know about bug me not?
- OkydOky, on 03/13/2008, -2/+9Why is he being Dugg down?
It's true.. Just learn to scroll Down EE! - bobbysarcletti, on 03/13/2008, -0/+6do these actually work on many sites?
- lolwutpear, on 03/13/2008, -3/+9that defeats the purpose of the comment system. he can say something not nice if he wants, but if he says something dumb, we bury him.
- lescar, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5There's a nice add-on for firefox which lets you change your user agent: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/59
Just install it, then go to tools -> user agent -> switcher -> options -> options ->user agents ->add
Description: Googlebot
User Agent: “Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)” Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
You'll be browsing as the google bot. - Vo0Ds, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5Proxy / Google translate
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4agreed. but your nick is infantile and i have a strong feeling that i will hate you if i ever were unlucky enough to meet you.
- Scynet, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3On sites with lots of users, you'll almost certainly find an account with a username AND password of "asd" or "qwerty". Just find the login page and insert those, or some other generic examples.
- newslang, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3Huh...didn't notice that, thanks Tynian.
When I accidentally click an experts exchange link from a google search I usually just swear a lot and click 'back'. - Mr8lack, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3Thanks for the tip. With experts exchange username: qwerty and 123456 works...
- scribat, on 03/13/2008, -2/+5Actually, I never knew about bug me not or be the bot, dick.
- Firehed, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3I was so happy when I first found that out. What a lame attempt at security by obscurity (without ***** up your SEO).
As it turns out, I haven't missed much by not having a membership. - r00tus3r, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3www.experts-exchange.com is the worst when it comes to this.
- BurnTees, on 03/13/2008, -5/+7if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
- heavyd14, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2All you need to do is scroll down.
- barf314, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2but that's so hard! I'd rather get spammed.
- VSLOATHE, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2As an aside (and it might be mentioned already but I've gotta get out the door), it's easy to change your browser's useragent string to emulate a Google bot, without having to use someone else's web application to do it. In firefox go to about:config and change it there. In IE, I believe it's a registry setting.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2I submitted a complaint to Google several months back that they werent putting full content on their pages, perhaps they do it now just for the googlebot. If you see a site doing shady *****, submit a complaint to Google.
- faraggi, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3please tell me this works for porn sites as well!
- NanoStuff, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1To make it clear, the reason the 'bot' trick sometimes works is when the application specifically allows certain bots to bypass login so that they may index the information on the site. The site can also pass an attribute to the google bot to prevent caching.
- breakaway, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1god damn expert sex change
- sysop073, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I have a lot of success with bugmenot, especially using the firefox plugin that will just keep throwing all the usernames and passwords at the login prompt if one doesn't work. And robots.txt has absolutely nothing to do with this at all
- rd3k, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Wow thanks so much for that! The number of times EE has come up after I googled a problem, and I though "damn, you need membership".
- ennTOXX, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2I think it's great to let everyone know about this. I agree that having to sign up to view information is soooooo 1996... :||
- turbovince, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Article doesn't say it's unbeatable, it's just there to help.
- bliz, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1It irritated me to the point of adding EE to the blocksite extension for firefox.
- roosterjm2k2, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3I cant believe people don't know this...
- turbovince, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Yes, a lot.
- mciampa1214, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Useful, but tell me how to access sites blocked by my overly strict university...
- NanoStuff, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1You have to specifically ALLOW certain bots to access protected content. Your robots.txt file will do nothing against bots that really want to see your content, they simply won't represent themselves as bots.
There is nothing that needs to be added to the robots.txt file to give bots the same access privileges as human user agents. If access without login is denied by default, it's denied for bots too. - MonarchWastxD, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Googlebot's user agent was cool.
- A11YND, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Does not work for porn.
- Farhan, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Damn i did'nt had any idea about this, Thanks :D
- uglysmurf, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1 dmd
- jasonvw, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1keep scrolling. It looks like you've reached the end of the page, but you haven't.
- wiifm69, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1www.passworduniverse.com
- jimjoke, on 03/14/2008, -1/+1I hate Experts Exchange for switching to a subscriber system.
- iMelrose, on 03/17/2008, -0/+0I like porn.
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