azarina2805
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.