I started to notice that more sites are turning into paywalls, and I don’t like that and would prefer ads over subscriptions.

I am curious, what does the general community think about that?

  • Lvxferre
    4·
    5 hours ago

    It depends on the implementation, in both cases. I can somewhat tolerate:

    • ads that are visually distinct from the actual content, not personalised or targetted, not obstrusive or obnoxious
    • paywalls that apply to recent news, but don’t get in your way while you’re looking for older stuff

    Go past that and I’m avoiding your ads with uBlock and your paywalls with archive links. And, more importantly: there are other financing methods, such as Patreon.