Medium use many deceptive patterns - especially with language:

‘Paywall’ → called ‘Partner Programme’

Double negatives → weird phrases like 'To make your post unmetered, deselect the checkbox'

Paywall is Opt-in by default: The option to log in is checked by default, meaning you actively have to say no to earning money when unchecking it.

They were a major offender in this post i wrote:'Dark Patterns in UI Copy' https://prototypr.io/post/we-value-your-privacy-at-about-0-5... (need to replace dark patterns with 'deceptive patterns')

Thanks for sharing, and hope more people are thinking about this, it's not fair for the web