>And practically anything you try to look at says you have to be a subscriber. Why put it on the internet, then?

Because there's no paper edition anymore?

They could have sent it by email, except that it would most likely be filtered out as spam. So the method of delivery is "you click your *ss over here and take it yourself". Which is all fine if there are no ads. Ads would be fine for the freebie part, if any, until the part that you paid for.