Disguise Your Browser as a Google Bot and Get Free Access to Pay Sites
This post was published 2 years 4 months 1 day ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Did you know that most registration sites give Google VIP access to their restricted content? Reason being, these sites want their content indexed in Googles vast search database to attract and receive more hits. Why should Google be the only one to get this VIP treatment? Here is how, using your existing browser, that you can receive similar treatment.
First you have to trick the website that you are visiting that you are actually a Google bot. To do that you need to modify your browsers ‘User Agent.’ If you use FireFox download User Agent Switcher (UAS) to start the process.
Then you need to alter the UAS settings (Tools – User Agent Switcher – Options – Options – User Agents – Add) to the following:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Simple as that! Now you should be able to access forums and news sites that previously required registrations.
Did you just make porn even easier to access?
Excellent. But now what restricted site can I access now??? I tried Oink, but it’s not working there. Any recommendation??
I was thinking the same thing!
oink does definately not want to be indexed by google lol
Just tried it for http://www.experts-exchange.com and it worked great :)
also works for http://pro.imdb.com/
Chad how do u access imdb pro? when i try it takes me to https://secure.imdb.com/signup/v4/signup !?
thats good, but what sites can we take advantage of with this?
Can we troll forums without username and passwords? Not that we will, ou know, cause thats like bad…?
I couldnt get into experts-exchange…how’d you do it?
Are you using an OSX skin/theme? Your ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons look sweet! Please spill the details!
replace pay by ‘require registration but not payment’
I retract my pro.imdb statement… I thought it worked because of content being changed when you switched the user agent, but it doesn’t, I think it just assumes you have no JS or CSS so it displays a spoof image.
my bad guys :(
Sounds great; although, I could not get it to access anything. More support is needed.
hot about a list of sites this works with or atleast a few… i mean besides expertexchange
Has anyone found this to work on any site other than expert-exchange? It doesn’t seem to do much for me on the sites I’ve tried it.
The concept is interesting. Maybe I’m not creative enough to find the sites for which it works.
Can u please clarify on how to use other websites???
Try this with Firefox…not sure if it will get you into anything other than expert-exchange…I haven’t tried:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
I get this if i try to visit my own website :)
Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server.
An invalid request was received. You claimed to be a major search engine, but you do not appear to actually be a major search engine.
Your technical support key is:
thanks!!