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I am already logged in and it still is a featured story. It's counted against 3 features story I can read in a month. So it is behind paywall. C

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It's a soft limit by Medium. You don't have to be signed in to read it. Delete your cookies or use a private window.

Then log out. It’s not a paywall. Log out and you can read it. Medium is playing you.

Proper response: delete account and don't visit medium again.

Even better: sites such as hn should never allow links to sites employing dark patterns.

People are interested in the content. No need for HN to start filtering because the blog service. You can avoid the site if you want.

There most certainly is a pressing need for sites such as HN to start care about stuff like this.

If people start to care about being exploited the content will move to a more ethical site. Or it might influence medium.

People don't care though, because they can make their own choices but they're clearly still sharing and reading on medium. You're asking for HN to arbitrarily enforce your wishes on top of what users are doing.

They do, and it is hardly my wishes alone.

If 1% don't care and share the crap the other 99% still have to suffer for it.

That’s assuming the 99% care to suffer. I don‘t, I see a post from wall street journal, I don‘t click. I know it’s a paywall. People have a choice to click or not.

I do agree that medium is a bit of a mess where one is „less privileged“ when signed in.

But what we should be asking for is the companies like Netflix not using medium in a first place.

Ban medium from HN and companies like netflix will switch in 5 minutes.

There are plugins to help you fight against Medium's paywall. However, if you didn't want to use a plugin, then you can easily use a private session which circumvents Medium's premium content.

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