Or it could go the other way. If all media outlets decide to put up a paywall it forces people to actually pay for reading the news. Currently there are a few n

Or it could go the other way. If all media outlets decide to put up a paywall it forces people to actually pay for reading the news. Currently there are a few news outlets who plead for ad blockers to be turned off while still offering content for free. And since ad blockers allow you to add exceptions this doesn't create a level playing field between those outlets that advertise and those that are locked behind a paywall. GDPR might end up forcing the outlets reliant on advertising to also shift to paywalls effectively creating the level playing field that was lacking earlier. Let's face it, despite social media being a great enabler for realtime news the quality of news is sub-par. The biggest bane of social media is the transfer of responsibility of filtering real news from a firehose of fake news, to the end user. Until that issue is solved people are going to probably pay for news. This is just my speculation of how things might go after GDPR.