paywall
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- History
- Types
- "Hard" paywalls
- "Soft" paywalls
- Combination
- Cookie paywall
- Reception
- Industry
- Reader
- Ethical implications
- Deterioration of the online public sphere
- Paying to stay informed
- Counter strategies
- Newspapers disabling the paywall
- New revenue initiatives
- Alternative revenue initiative: API
- Readers bypassing paywalls{{anchor|Circumvention}}
- Legal implications of bypassing paywalls
- Abandoned paywall initiatives
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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A paywall is a method of restricting access to content, with a purchase or a paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of decline in paid print readership and advertising revenue, partly due to the use of ad blockers. In academics, research papers are often subject to a paywall and are available via academic libraries that subscribe.