https://unweb.org/tags/paywalls/ Recent content in Paywalls on unweb.org Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://unweb.org/a-news-paywall-counts-your-free-articles-and-a-stranger-starts-from-zero/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://unweb.org/a-news-paywall-counts-your-free-articles-and-a-stranger-starts-from-zero/ <p>Many news sites give you a few free articles a month, then ask you to subscribe. The count has to live somewhere, and on most sites it lives in your browser: a cookie that goes up by one with every article. This case study uses a made-up news site, The Daily Ledger, with a meter of three.</p> <p>For a reader, that explains why a private window sometimes gets you past the wall. For a publisher, it&rsquo;s worth knowing what a newcomer sees, and how easy the meter is to reset.</p>