I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn’t notice.
Because you weren’t going to pay. The people that don’t know any better/have the money to spend on a subscription would just as soon pay for the convenience of not doing everything above.
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.
I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn’t notice.
It’s so strange to me
I guess that they want to be indexed by google for the full content but not to be seen by you.
Because you weren’t going to pay. The people that don’t know any better/have the money to spend on a subscription would just as soon pay for the convenience of not doing everything above.
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.