[smcin]

Interesting; I'm in the US; where are you? Also, mobile/desktop?

(It literally doesn't say it on the webpage served to me; don't assume the same version is served to all countries)

[anonzzzies]

EU and mobile; it pops up right away and says 1 article. I tried to view another one and that indeed got me to the payments page.

[smcin]

Must be due to the GDPR then.

[anonzzzies]

Doubt it but people seem to misinterpret gdpr rules all the time.

Americans are especially paranoid about the letter of the law while here we only use the intention. It’s all only about big offenders not some blog no one reads.

[smcin]

I didn't say "GDPR rules", more like a business decision about how many free articles to allow non-subscribers to view in GDPR vs non-GDPR region.