What's the issue? That they trick you into signing up for the answer (that is already on the same page, just further down)? Lots of sites use tricks like this to get users to subscribe. This may be more extreme, granted. However Google blocking them seems extreme. I've found many solutions from EE (via Google). You just have to scroll down further. Something I'm happy to do given that it has often saved me a lot of time.

Or is it something completely different?!

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