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Cantiara It's not like free readers were not watching adds before.... The difference is that befoe I could keep up with the two novels I read one webnovel, 4 chapters per day, now I can't. And don't get me started on how with every update the site gets more scummy. The only time webnovel did something consumer friendly was with the subscription model. Buying ss or coins is not worth it all and that's coming from someone who spend like 200€ on that shit. Don't even get me started on "privilege".... I know an just ranting randomly and out of subject but.. I want to support webnovel and read the novels here.. but it's just too damn expensive...

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Nope, indeed. Only a few of the free novels and fanfics have it. But from what I've heard, you don't even need to read the novel. Just click through the pages until you get the ads and watch the ads. Oh, make sure you have set the farming mode on in your settings, and I also heard it only works with page-turning and not page-scrolling.

Immortal_Thunder The thing is, the ads didn't generate enough revenues for WN. WN is a host partner of Google's AdSense. How it works is basically, advertisers pay Google to run ads on the Adsense network, then WN applied to become a part of that network, and later once they've become a part of Google Adsense network, they get an ad code from Google and place it on their site/app. Then Google pays WN when those ads appear on their site/app. How they are paid is based on per click and per action. Per Click is the most common type, WN gets paid every time we, readers, click and view the ads they're showing on their site/app. But this doesn't really generate a significant amount of money. The other type, Per Action, is the one that produces more money. WN gets paid when we actually perform an action after viewing those videos, like downloading those games advertised in the multiplier videos, etc., because the action provides a direct benefit to the advertiser. But not many people do that, if any at all. Well, I, at least, never did that. Before this update, the daily rewards that you get from watching an ad was like what? 5 SS? The revenue that WN generated from users clicking and viewing the ads (without any follow-up actions) was around 0.25-0.5 SS each. So, as you can see, there were no gains from letting users watch ads and giving out 5 SS per ads.

About the subscription system, I wasn't around when it was introduced. But from what I understood, on the one hand, it was actually very profitable for WN because a lot of users had subscribed to the service, but on the other hand, it was not sustainable for the authors. With pay per chapter system, the coins that the users pay to read a novel are split between WN and the author of that novel only (I'm talking about net revenue here). Whereas with the subscription system, they had to split the income with all the other (contracted) authors on the platform. So for example, if novel A is popular, and a lot of readers subscribe to the subscription service because they want to read novel A, B, and C, but don't care about novels D, E, F, the authors of novel A, B, and C actually have to split the revenue from the subscription service with the authors of D, E, and F. They didn't think that's fair, and hence, WN decided to stop that system.

But aren't they introducing the membership system with this new version? Not sure how it works exactly because it's exclusive for people living in Canada right now, but maybe it's like a hybrid between the subscription and the pay per chapter systems. We'll see.

Having said that, I do understand your frustration. I'm just trying to explain the other side of the coin (no pun intended ;) ). Of course, in the end, it's really your own choice whether or not you want to support this business. If one day I think this service is too expensive for me to afford, I too will pull out the plug. :)

Sorry for the long post.

Cantiara Thank you for taking the time to explain it.

_Miyasaka for farming mode you need to know which novel have it. and you are the same as me ig . as i didn't know what novel have farming mode. i wish they add a indicator on the novel info it had farming mode or they did but i didn't know which was it.

during reading the novel, you need to use turn page mode for the symbol like pouch to came up. scrolling mode didn't support it yet or again it did but i didn't know. clicking on that pouch will made you watch the ads and give you a random points.

to see how many point you got and to purchase using point, you can see it on the profile tab>store. clicking on the pouch show income and outcome. to use the redeem you had purchase, you can see it at profile>vouchers.

the reason i said a lot that i didn't know is because i also just got to know the existence of this farming mode. i wish they add a patch note or tutorial whenever a new feature or update came up.
although last big update about the fast pass did have it, it still didn't explain properly what fast pass is. and the faq need to be updated too. don't release something without a guide please. as soon an update was up do release a faq for it and delete the outdated guide.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL probably you could take this as suggestion.

Cantiara might know more and can elaborate it more if i miss anything.