Support for server side paywalls

[mpaw]

The amp-access-server module has been in experimental phase for a long time now. There is an issue from two years ago that has a comment that said the implementation was done and that it's just going through security reviews: #4000 (comment)

The current client side paywall implementation is not only extremely easy to circumvent, but by design allows people to scrape full article data. The new amp-subscriptions module doesn't fix this issue in any way either. It still paywalls content by only showing/hiding elements that have to always exist in the HTML of the AMP pages.

When is support for server side paywalls coming?

[torch2424]

Triaging to @dvoytenko , feel free to re-assign 😄

[dvoytenko]

@mpaw Thanks for inquiring. The bad news, the original amp-access-server proposal did not satisfy most of publishers or goals. The good news is that I think we found a better proposal that we are planning to publish as an ITI (hopefully) by the end of this month.

[mpaw]

@dvoytenko I would be interested in being involved in finalizing this new proposal. We have some requirements on wsj.com and barrons.com that I would like to make sure are met by this new implementation. If you want to reach out to me directly, my email is marcin.pawelek@dowjones.com. Thanks

[ampprojectbot]

This issue doesn't have a category which makes it harder for us to keep track of it. @dvoytenko Please add an appropriate category.

[dvoytenko]

@mpaw There're still a few things to confirm on our end before we can start sharing the info. I hope to have the info in the next 2 weeks.

[mpaw]

@dvoytenko Any updates on this?

[dvoytenko]

@mpaw Thanks for following up. We're working on it and will have more to say once things firm up a bit more.

/cc @jpettitt