I kinda hope they would put a symbol to indicate a paywall (for example, a green brick wall), like how some articles are labelled with a lightning bolt for AMP-ed pages.
Annddd Medium paywall, so I guess I'll never know.
Anyway, I hope the WebMonetization.org standard catches on to help more writers earn money from less committed readers. I am seeing the Coil icon in Firefox light up on more sites every week.
I'd be totally cool with a paywall instead of slow and distracting ads.
Here's an idea - why don't a bunch of publishers (or a third party) get together and build a subscription service for a reasonable monthly fee that automatically gets me through their paywall when I visit their sites. In theory it would be open for any publisher to join, and they get to split my monthly fee based on pageviews.
I think it's a great idea, especially in lieu of a paywall, but I honestly can't think of that many websites that have paywalls. Maybe I just avoid them naturally?
It also seems like this could be useful for free versions of iOS apps, as advertisement replacements (or supplements.)
I wish there was a paywall/geoblocking/whatever-the-next-discriminator-is flag so I could just filter submissions. Or at least to mark it and save the disappointment. It seems more necessary as the web becomes more closed.
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