What a disgusting shady move is that... Glad that I don't use a search engine that uses such mobbish predatory ways to extort newspapers so that it can make money off of the stories they write, and mandate what I can access or not in the meantime.
Is it disgusting and shady not to buy and use something when it is more expensive than you are prepared to pay? What obligation does Google have to drive visitors to newspapers' websites and pay the newspapers for doing so?