I recently picked back up reading comics and webtoons after years of having mostly forgotten about them, mostly because I missed reading some of my older favorites. And oh dear the paywalling is so much worse than it was back when I left webtoon. If I want to read an ongoing comic on Originals, I have to use the app. Fine, whatever, I can wait until it's over. But if I want to read a finished comic, I have to read it on the app and I have to watch ads or pay to unlock every episode, and paying the webtoon currency is absolutely impossible. 20 to 25 coins per episode. The coin prices are absolutely outrageous, which I wouldn't mind paying if they actually went to the authors, but particularly webtoon sucks at giving creators a fair cut. So I give up and download the app to watch ads so I can read the 200+ comic I wanted to read but I come to find the ads don't even work! They load for a full damn minute and then they just send me back to the start page. So I go through all the usual troubleshooting and still nothing works. I've had it up to here with their freebie scam crap so I try looking for other site versions of the webtoons I wanted to read, but there are none since most are not in english and they're not popular enough. This has been a four day fight that has left me insanely frustrated at something that used to be a nice relaxing hobby. The only good thing that I think has come of my little adventure is that now I'm extremely curious if anyone else around here has noticed the lack of high seas alternatives to those money hungry shit habits. I couldn't really find means to remove the paywall, either, so I also wanted to see if maybe some more experienced pirate has a direction to point me into; and if anyone may have anything they wanna discuss about webtoon's practices and the ethics of pirating media that is primarily made by independent artists.