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Every 10th paywall stop is evaded by readers

www.inma.org · Greg Piechota · last updated
What happens after a reader hits your paywall? Most leave the Web site. Some desperately reload the page or navigate to the home page. Many learned how to successfully bypass the paywall. They used clickstream data from a large North American news publisher with a client-side, metered paywall.

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