Summary: Well, looks like the jig is up for cheapskate news junkies. Search giant Google has decided to discontinue its trick that granted freeloading site visitors access to articles that are meant to be behind paywalls. Here’s how Google’s “First Click Free” policy used to work: Since 2009, users were able to read a set number of articles (as of 2015, it was three) per day behind a publisher’s paywall if they visited the article through a Google search.
