[fridek]

It's funny how people saying ads should be replaced with a subscription model in different threads are going completely bananas about paywalled articles.

Couple of web newspapers in my country switched recently to 10 articles a month for free and then asking for a subscription. It's awful, it makes me read less and I would prefer to see some ads I'm used to ignoring anyway. Usually I don't know if I like the content before I'm half-way through it. I also don't want to have 20 subscriptions pending every month just to have access to a reasonable portion of the internet.

The web has already killed most of review and proofreading process in press. Lets not kill content quality by taking even more money out of it.

[TeMPOraL]

Let me show you a model of a decent web news paper that could get by with ads and no paywall:

     |----------------------------------|
     | MY AWESOME NEWSPAPER             |
     |----------------------------------|
     | category | links | cool | topics |
     |----------------------------------|
     | Article Title         | Ads      |
     |                       |          |
     | Article content arti  | A bunch  |
     | cle content article   | of static|
     | content.              | not      |
     |                       | annoying |
     |  |---------------|    | ads      |
     |  | A cat picture |    |          |
     |  |---------------|    |          |
     |                       |          |
     | Article content arti  |          |
     | cle content article   |          |
     | content.              |          |
     |                       |          |
     |----------------------------------|
     | footer links & copyright notices |
     |----------------------------------|

Simple as that. Just don't shit on your users. If they have ad blockers, kindly ask them to whitelist your site.

> Lets not kill content quality by taking even more money out of it.

What content quality?

[norea-armozel]

This is the basic format that I wish web designers would follow. Also, I wish ad networks wouldn't be sleazy and allow anyone to use their services (scammers, malware producers, and the like should be categorically banned from an ad network). If the latter was fixed then the former would be possible.