Medium's got a few dark patterns too. Most notably, how hard they try to trick people into viewing paid articles and losing their three or so free articles supp

Medium's got a few dark patterns too. Most notably, how hard they try to trick people into viewing paid articles and losing their three or so free articles supply. Seriously. Every single article on the front page is usually a paid article. Every single article in the email digest is usually a paid article. And in all cases, actually figuring this out is pretty hard, since you have to know the tiny star icon stands for 'paid' rather than any of the four million other meanings it may have. Let's not forget how hard they push you to register either. Those giant modals and bars can be utterly obnoxious. Other examples I've seen recently are: Twitter and its absolute obsession with getting you to view tweets in 'non linear' order. Every time you set it to 'chronological order' or what not, it seems to revert back to their algorithm the next time you load the site or app. No, I don't want this. Why is the idea of a simple timeline so scary for social media sites now? As well as YouTube and its attempts to smuggle content you don't want into your notifications list. Again, if users click subscribe, they want to do just that, not get spammed with promoted content so you can make a quick buck. It's annoying how bad most large sites nowadays seem to be about stuff like this.