paywall

or pay wall

[ pey-wawl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a system in which access to all or part of a website is restricted to paid subscribers:
Some newspapers have put their content behind a paywall.
the part of a website that can be accessed only by paid subscribers.

to restrict access to (all or part of a website) to paid subscribers:
Here’s an abstract, but the full article is paywalled.

Origin of paywall¹

First recorded in 2005–10; pay ¹ + (fire)wall

Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?

He would more than likely have supported some form of paywall.

By putting up a paywall, it has told online readers that they will have to pay.

To cope with declining advertising revenue, the Times installed a controversial paywall.

I can read it here, because I have a pass, but you might just get the paywall if you click through.

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