paywall

See also: Paywall

English

Etymology

From pay +‎ wall, by analogy with firewall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/

Noun

paywall (plural paywalls)

1. (informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
   • 2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot‎^[1]:

     Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.

   • 2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press, →ISBN, page 332:

     Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]

   • 2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 140:

     As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.

Derived terms

• hard paywall
• soft paywall
• paywalled
• registration wall

Descendants

• → German: Paywall
• → Norwegian Bokmål: betalingsmur (calque)
• → Swedish: betalvägg (calque)

Translations

a feature of a website that only allows access to paying subscribers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 付費牆／付费墙 (fùfèiqiáng)

• Dutch: betaalmuur (nl) m
• Finnish: maksumuuri (fi)
• French: péage (fr) m
• German: Bezahlschranke (de) f, Paywall (de) f
• Hungarian: fizetőfal
• Italian: paywall m, a pagamento, accesso a pagamento, pedaggio (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: betalingsmur (no) m

• Polish: paywall (pl) m
• Portuguese: muro de pagamento (pt) m, paywall (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cachaileith-phàighidh f
• Spanish: muro de pago m
• Swedish: betalvägg (sv) c

See also

• login wall

Verb

paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)

1. (informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.

Derived terms

• paywalled
• nonpaywalled
• unpaywalled

Further reading

• paywall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia