Personally I believe this is only fair, because such websites are abusing the inner workings of Google&#x27;s crawler while displaying to users something else that the crawler doesn&#x27;t see. I always wondered why such tactics aren&#x27;t penalized, such as websites placed behind a paywall by means of Javascript, like the Experts-Exchange of old or these websites that show slimy full page ads, sometimes with broken links. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;m actually for paywalls and ads, I&#x27;m fine with whatever business model can keep the lights on, but then if you want web-scale traffic, it&#x27;s not morally justifiable to <i>piggyback on the open-web</i>. If you want to sell your slimy app, then use an app store instead of tricking a web search engine.<p>Also, Google&#x27;s search engine has never, ever, ever been objective in the signals used for ranking. Their results have been different and biased ever since the start, which is what made their search engine successful in the first place. It&#x27;s a little late to complain about that.