DNT-compatible soft paywalls

[dmarti]

Some sites choose to offer access to a limited number of pages in a given period for users without accounts. One calendar month is a common time period used.

When the time period for a "soft paywall" article count is greater than 10 days, can this document cover how a site can implement a soft paywall in a way that complies with DNT?

(This could help in the future, by enabling publisher-friendly privacy tools to respect DNT-compliant soft paywalls by default.)

[andresbase]

This is a good point. I believe low entropy cookies are a good use here.

For example, Privacy Badger makes this distinction when making decisions: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#faq-Does-Privacy-Badger-consider-every-cookie-to-be-a-tracking-cookie?

More information here as well: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/DESIGN-AND-ROADMAP.md#what-is-a-low-entropy-cookie