> It's only the subsequent clicks that can be paywalled.
I find it annoying when that happens. Also, Google's recommendation is to allow 5 clicks a day and allow everyone with "GoogleBot" in their useragent. I wish the implementation was better.
> Is it asking to sign in? I tried in incognito mode and I could read the groups just fine.
You are right, I cleared my cookies and I stopped getting the login redirection.
I just want to point out that search results like Quora or Experts-exchange, are definitely not going away. Some websites might be penalized here and there but I haven't seen any consistent efforts to stop them.
We've created a lot of problems, yes. We need more energy, more food, more clean water. We need to clean up our soils, we need to plant some new forests.
The focus on cutting CO2 emissions seems misplaced.