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by swyx 5y ago
"You’ve read all your free member-only stories. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from."
Can we ban medium posts on HN already? imagine if we login-walled every piece on HN. we should not encourage this behavior and we have the clout to send Medium a message.
- villgax 5y agoOpening in private mode should fix it
- itsdsmurrell 5y agoIf the fix is so simple (I do this all the time btw), why waste people's time?
- sichtlinkair 5y agoBecause there's enough people who don't understand it that it's worth trying?
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- itsdsmurrell 5y agoMedium is the worst.
- cactus2093 5y agoWhy medium specifically? You’d have to ban just about every news and media outlet.
- swyx 5y agonews/media livelihoods depend on that paywall, i'm fine with that. medium literally exists to just put a wall between you and the authors content. nobody's making real money blogging on medium. and HN is an audience of developers, for whom standing up their own blog is trivial. ironically dev.to is shadowbanned on HN (understandable because lots of blogpspam), when medium is the one that gives readers a terrible reading experience.
- throwaway98797 5y agoi’ll take terrible reading experience over poor content any day.
- coldtea 5y agoWhy pick one? With Medium you can enjoy both!
- LeftTriangle 5y agoGood, we should ban other paywall spam sites like NYT as well.
- jiofih 5y agoYes, please. I’ve been asking for this for years but mods usually flag my comments. Links should only be allowed to the public internet.
- pluc 5y agoSeriously does nobody think of moderation? I moderate a large sub on reddit and there are local news outlets that allow 4 articles a month and then you have to use trickery to get around the paywall to read the article. As a moderator I need to ensure the articles are related and comply with the rules - you know what I do when I reach the 5th article? For the rest of the month that site gets no posts on our sub.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoAs another moderator, that doesn't seem like a great approach; you're effectively punishing the readers of your sub for someone else's decision, somewhat arbitrarily. Your subscribers may not have hit that 4-article limit.
- leshenka 5y agoGood for them. Now what about rest of us?
- pavel_lishin 5y agoThe decision to ban partial-paywall sites is fine, but doing it just for a month after the moderator personally runs into a problem seems very subjective.
- dang 5y agoOut of curiosity, I looked up your past comments that have been flagged. Users flagged them, not mods. I didn't study the content closely, but it certainly looked like the flags were fair.
- hiichbindermax 5y agoDelete your cookies for medium. Then you should be able to read it. Or don't allow cookies for medium in the first place.
- adhi001 5y agoCheck this out - https://github.com/manojVivek/medium-unlimited https://github.com/manojVivek/medium-unlimited
- Retr0spectrum 5y ago> we have the clout to send Medium a message. I'm not sure we do. Medium is comparatively a much bigger and more mainstream platform than HN.
- sharjeelsayed 5y agoUse this https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- FriedrichN 5y agoSomething I recommend to all is to install uMatrix and only allow first party CSS and images by default and only increase permissions if necessary. Because I block all cookies by default, I never run into this problem.
- unicornporn 5y agouMatrix has been discontinued. The repository has been archived. It was great but it was also a dread, even after training it. If you visit mostly the same sites I guess it's fine.
- PudgePacket 5y ago> uMatrix has been discontinued. The repository has been archived. It still works.
- kencausey 5y agoYes, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like it should continue to work just fine until there is some significant change in how HTTP works.
- kencausey 5y agoOr of course if the browser stops providing the necessary API, which seems the most likely cause for the demise of uMatrix, at least in the shorter term.
- mtmail 5y agoFrom the HN FAQ. "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here."
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- smoldesu 5y agoI just don't click on Medium posts, but I wholeheartedly agree. Medium (as well as Substack, for that matter) is one of the largest SAAS failures in the past decade IMO.
- MindTooth 5y agohttps://archive.is/wWsjs https://archive.is/wWsjs
- seam_carver 5y agoTurned off paywall, sorry! Didn't realize that it was the default!
- znpy 5y ago> Can we ban medium posts on HN already? I've been asking this for years.
- sp332 5y agoThe article also has a link at the bottom to send the author money if you found the article helpful. If I paid money upfront to see the article, I'm going to be much less likely to send more money afterward.
- seam_carver 5y agoSorry, removed paywall. Didn't realize it was default.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoMore logical solution would be for Medium, Financial times etc. disable their paywall when the source is HN, Reddit etc. like they do for Social Media. Perhaps there's a need gap for 3rd party service which can work out a deal between news websites and submission forums.