I see what you mean. I just think it’s weird that so many people expect the news to be free while also using ad-blockers, but then they also presumably expect the same level of quality and breadth of coverage that we had back when everyone used to pay for newspapers (in addition to paying for things like classified ads, etc).

The money has to come from somewhere. It’s not like newspapers of today are wildly profitable to begin with, so I can understand why they think they need to have paywalls to meet their profitability targets.

Would be interesting to see if there are any serious studies on whether paywalls are a net negative in the long run.