I find this quite more complex than that. This is not just a different revenue source, it's a different business model.
If you don't click on ads, you don't bring any money so you night as well install an adblocker.
When your revenue source is ads, it becomes a conflicting content with your own content. You need people to stop paying attention to your content, lool at ads and deciding to leave your site for it. Ads network can also have an say on your content by controling your income source.
Paying a news website directly brings them independance and allows the site to focus on content, those 2 things are at the core of journalism.
If I were you, I would reconsider a subscription if you really liked the spiegel.
If you don't click on ads, you don't bring any money so you night as well install an adblocker.
When your revenue source is ads, it becomes a conflicting content with your own content. You need people to stop paying attention to your content, lool at ads and deciding to leave your site for it. Ads network can also have an say on your content by controling your income source.
Paying a news website directly brings them independance and allows the site to focus on content, those 2 things are at the core of journalism.
If I were you, I would reconsider a subscription if you really liked the spiegel.