The real problem is Google indexing it.
Wasn't there even a rule from Google that you can't serve different content from what the general public is seeing?
Wasn't there even a rule from Google that you can't serve different content from what the general public is seeing?
It's definitely against their policy in my opinion, but I guess you could make a weak case that this is what the public would see if this was their "first visit".
https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4054...
This is about "soft paywalls" that allow you to read maybe a dozen articles per months.
It definitely doesn't stop at "maybe a dozen" pages a month.