different between paywalled vs paywall

English

Etymology

paywall +? -ed

Adjective

paywalled (not comparable)

1. (Internet) Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.
   • 2012, Eugenia Siapera, Andreas Veglis, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism (page 415)

     […] suggesting that the paywalled online news models currently pursued by the Australian News Ltd and its international parent NewsCorp were unworkable and based on outdated ideas […]

English

Etymology

From pay +? wall, by analogy with firewall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe?.w??l/

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

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

Derived terms

• hard paywall
• soft paywall
• paywalled

Translations

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 Web site or other resource) by means of a paywall.

Further reading

• paywall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia