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Medium does NOT require you to sign in. It asks you to, but you don't have to be signed in to read the posts. You can just close the prompt or click outside of

by chirau 7y ago

Medium does NOT require you to sign in. It asks you to, but you don't have to be signed in to read the posts. You can just close the prompt or click outside of it. Source: I have never signed up for Medium and. I have been able to read in full any article I click on up until today. As much as you may dislike it, I don't think you should spread misinformation when you could simply have investigated this first.

oblib 7y ago
I went back to those articles and you're right, you can click through. But I did not "spread misinformation". The fact that I didn't know you can just click outside that login screen to read their content isn't because I was misinformed. It was because I was intentionally not informed. And I won't be patting myself on the back now that I know it's easy to get around either. I'd rather just avoid sites that play silly tricks like this in order to collect more data on me.
- chirau 7y ago
  If you walk up to a bar, see a cash box at the door (maybe for a cover, maybe for donations) but no one asks you to pay and you choose not to enter and walk away because of the bucket, then you go around asking people why they would go to said club when it has a cover charge, I believe that counts as misinformation. If you tell people a site has a paywall when it doesn't, that is misinformation. If you tell people that a site requires login when it doesn't, that is also misinformation.
  - oblib 7y ago
    >>If you tell people a site has a paywall when it doesn't, that is misinformation I did not tell people here there was a "paywall". I told them Medium requires I ""sign in" with Google or Facebook". The truth is they don't, but they make it look like they do. So, are you deliberately trying to misinform others here now by claiming I said they have a "paywall"? That seems a lot closer to that line you've accused me of crossing than what I wrote here.

by chirau 7y ago

oblib 7y ago

I went back to those articles and you're right, you can click through. But I did not "spread misinformation". The fact that I didn't know you can just click outside that login screen to read their content isn't because I was misinformed. It was because I was intentionally not informed. And I won't be patting myself on the back now that I know it's easy to get around either. I'd rather just avoid sites that play silly tricks like this in order to collect more data on me.

chirau 7y ago
If you walk up to a bar, see a cash box at the door (maybe for a cover, maybe for donations) but no one asks you to pay and you choose not to enter and walk away because of the bucket, then you go around asking people why they would go to said club when it has a cover charge, I believe that counts as misinformation. If you tell people a site has a paywall when it doesn't, that is misinformation. If you tell people that a site requires login when it doesn't, that is also misinformation.
- oblib 7y ago
  >>If you tell people a site has a paywall when it doesn't, that is misinformation I did not tell people here there was a "paywall". I told them Medium requires I ""sign in" with Google or Facebook". The truth is they don't, but they make it look like they do. So, are you deliberately trying to misinform others here now by claiming I said they have a "paywall"? That seems a lot closer to that line you've accused me of crossing than what I wrote here.