There&#x27;s nothing wrong with paywalls and ads. It&#x27;s annoying when sites with paywalls are posted to public forums since any number of people are not going to be able to join the discussion, but this isn&#x27;t the site&#x27;s fault. I think sometimes people forget that they pay for certain websites when they submit. Plus it turns the forum into an advertisement which is not really the intended use.<p>Likewise, ads are fine in theory but the implementation is absolutely horrible.