When I hit a paywall, I walk away, or pay up, because that's the ethical thing to do - I do expect no tracking though, when I do pay up. Reasonable ads (fast, 1

When I hit a paywall, I walk away, or pay up, because that's the ethical thing to do - I do expect no tracking though, when I do pay up. Reasonable ads (fast, 1st party served) would be ok, tracking is really not. But... bots (google, etc) are allowed to get through. I understand the reasons, but then, is it really a paywall? To be honest, I won't bother with cookies and other tricks: logged in, allowed, logged out, walk away. In the end, I agree: don't bypass paywalls, the whole adblocking argument becomes invalid, if we do. Some publishers are trying to find a new way of income, and bypassing that invalidates the efforts. (EDIT: treating bots differently is wrong on so many levels. I changed the User Agent of my miniflux RSS reader to "miniflux-legacy (Googlebot for Tumblr)" from "Miniflux (https://miniflux.net)" https://miniflux.net)" because otherwise Tumblr shows GDPR cookie consent interstitial for RSS feeds. There really, really shouldn't be a separate version for bots.)