Get a Membership
Overview
You need a Coil Membership to support web monetized sites and to access Coil Member exclusives, such as videos on Cinnamon and ad-free browsing on Imgur.
You don't need a Coil Membership to web monetize your own content or to receive payments from Coil Members.
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Your membership must be paid by credit card in US dollars. We're working on offering you more payment options in the future.
New account
Follow these steps if you don't have a Coil account.
- Go to the Coil homepage and click Become a member.
- Enter your email address and a password.
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You must choose a strong password with at least 8 characters. You'll receive a message if your password isn't strong enough. To estimate password strength, we look for common names, repeating and sequential characters (e.g., 1111, abcd), keyboard patterns (e.g, qwerty) and a few other things.
- Agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then click Next.
- Enter the confirmation code sent to your email.
- Click Go to Settings, then select Membership.
- Click Add payment method.
- Enter your card details, then click Start Coil membership for $5/month.
- Install the Coil Extension.
Existing account
Follow these steps if you already have a free Coil account and want to sign up for a membership.
- Log in to your Coil account, click Go to Settings, then select Membership.
- Click Add payment method, enter your card details, then click Subscribe for $5/month.
- Install the Coil Extension.