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What is a Paywall?

A paywall is a payment wall

With a PayWall, it's important that you only get access to information if you pay: This can be one-off for one piece of information, the article, or it can be through a subscription. The paywall is mainly used in newspapers, often you will see a small introduction (to convince you of the fact that the article is worth the money) but the rest can only be seen when you get paid. It is a model that was introduced when it appeared that due to the online presence of newspapers there was less and fewer money entered by the publishers. When people also went to adblockers user also fell away the advertising revenues and there was no other possibility for some providers of information to exist, one had to ask for money for the information. Read More

What does DPI mean?

DPI means Deep Packet Inspection

At DPI, content is looked at the data transmitted over the network. If you send an old-fashioned handwritten letter, the postal company only looks at the envelope to see where it should go, if DPI is used, the letter itself will be read. A virus scanner and a Firewall also make Gebrbuik of DPI to check what happened on the computer or on the network. Read More