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I stopped clicking on links which have medium.com domain. It will be a premium article. Medium is choosing anything under premium payment wall, without explicit
by zerop 6y ago
I stopped clicking on links which have medium.com domain. It will be a premium article. Medium is choosing anything under premium payment wall, without explicit consent from Author. We need an alternate to this platform
- tonystubblebine 6y agoMedium does have consent from the author and the vast majority of page views are going to authors who know a lot about what they are doing. I think that's worth noting. A Medium link is most likely to an article that exists to be behind the paywall because the author thought they could make some money and get good distribution that way. A lot of these articles wouldn't exist otherwise.
- zerop 6y agoI too used to think so and that's how it was earlier. Check again. For example, other day I found one post on Netflix tech blog was also behind paywall.. check posts from famous tech blogs of companies, you would find some of them behind paywall. I don't think big corporates want to make money from their tech blogs.
- tonystubblebine 6y agoThe deal is for two things, money and distribution. It's possible that people are choosing to put something behind the paywall for distribution. But I agree that's unlikely in Netflix's case. But I'm 100% certain that the Netflix is the one who put it behind the paywall by having that option checked at the time of publication.