Let me guess: There are ways for Google's scraping, search engine, and AI model training to bypass this.

Makes it easier to see which sites to avoid, I guess.

Yeah, I don't care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don't do paywalls.

My first thought.

That or if Google hosts the service, they will just charge you a nominal fee. So the user will put the money in the basket or else they scrape the content again.

Hopefully ublock can handle those.

So, once somebody figures out how to easily bypass this, that'll work in my favor in the end I hope.

a paywall I am sure will be exactly as effective as google's attempts at ad-blocking on YouTube, for exactly the same reason: a dedicated group of pissed off nerds who spend their time getting around it as a service to everyone. Bypass Paywalls Clean is already a thing.

I don't need whatever's behind that nonsense.

So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.

Drastically reducing website traffic speedrun any%

I'm offering anyone using the service a chance to fuck right off.

I wonder how much it’ll integrate with Chrome to prevent tampering. I know it’ll probably not be perfect, but….

I hope ublock origin can handle it and by handle I mean make sure my machine never connects to a google server

How do you support the media you consume?

That’s their secret, captain. They don’t.

Or, TBF, like in free-to-play games, they are subsidized by paying/non-ad-blocking users.

The cost of consuming media doesn’t match its worth.

I never used ad blockers until they became invasive and disruptive.