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I barely even knew Medium was a platform that had its own post feed. I only knew it from clicking link submissions here that looked like they were from a corpo
by ntauthority 4y ago
I barely even knew Medium was a platform that had its own post feed.
I only knew it from clicking link submissions here that looked like they were from a corporate blog, but then turned out to be Medium with a custom domain, mainly as I would see a header saying 'by using Medium you agree to the privacy policy', which is a statement that is vague in a few ways:
1. Am I 'using Medium' if I'm reading a blog post on blog.somecorp.io that only says it's 'Medium' in the privacy policy header?
2. Have I been 'using Medium' by simply opening an article on it? Why have I not been given any time to not agree?
3. If I want to read the privacy policy, it seems to be hosted in a Medium article itself, with the same self-referential banner 'by using Medium, you agree to [the privacy policy]' which is a link to the same page.
4. If 2) applies, by reading the privacy policy I agree to the privacy policy. The escape in 1) doesn't apply either as the privacy policy is (or was?) hosted on a subdomain of medium.com. By trying to read the privacy policy (or interacting with the link that leads to the privacy policy?), I therefore have implicitly agreed to it.
This not only seems illegal in various jurisdictions, it's also very immoral.