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==How it works==

~~Companies or developers can add or block features under a paywall in~~ order to increase their revenue.

In order to increase their revenue, several companies or developers have embraced the pay-walling practices.

Some companies set paywalls since the release of their products or services but there are also some of them that set paywalls after some time.

==Why it is a problem==

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*Several newspaper websites paywall their articles by limiting the viewers the amount of articles they can read for free or by allowing them to see only a portion of the article. An [https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads open-source extension] compatible with Chromium-based and Firefox-based browsers allows to avoid paywalls from most of the newspaper websites.

*[[Consent-or-pay]] is an aggressive form of paywalling user privacy that is used by some websites. The sites that use this method only allow to disable web tracking and [[Web cookie|cookies]] if the user pays for a subscription.

*[[Tesla]] has locked some car features that used to be free, such as [[Tesla switches full self-driving to subscription only |full-self driving features]] under a subscription paywall and [[Tesla locks horsepower behind paywall |additional horsepower]] under a $2000 one-time purchase paywall.

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 ==How it works==
-Companies or developers can add or block features under a paywall in order to increase their revenue.
+In order to increase their revenue, several companies or developers have embraced the pay-walling practices.
+Some companies set paywalls since the release of their products or services but there are also some of them that set paywalls after some time.
 ==Why it is a problem==
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 *Several newspaper websites paywall their articles by limiting the viewers the amount of articles they can read for free or by allowing them to see only a portion of the article. An [https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads open-source extension] compatible with Chromium-based and Firefox-based browsers allows to avoid paywalls from most of the newspaper websites.
 *[[Consent-or-pay]] is an aggressive form of paywalling user privacy that is used by some websites. The sites that use this method only allow to disable web tracking and [[Web cookie|cookies]] if the user pays for a subscription.
+*[[Tesla]] has locked some car features that used to be free, such as [[Tesla switches full self-driving to subscription only |full-self driving features]] under a subscription paywall and [[Tesla locks horsepower behind paywall |additional horsepower]] under a $2000 one-time purchase paywall.
 ==References==