Considering that a few seconds in delay of loading a website has an impact on visitors staying, what do you think happens when they are required to jump through

Considering that a few seconds in delay of loading a website has an impact on visitors staying, what do you think happens when they are required to jump through registration hoops to get to the content? The thumbnails are also blurred. Why? These are tactics to censor content in a subtle way without outright deleting or hiding it, which would be too obvious.