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If you punish me every time I follow a link to your site, I may learn to avoid following links to your site. Medium changed from reader-friendly to reader-host
by dhbradshaw 4y ago
If you punish me every time I follow a link to your site, I may learn to avoid following links to your site.
Medium changed from reader-friendly to reader-hostile over time.
- wkat4242 4y agoGood point, seeing medium.com in a URL has this response with me now. For sure.
- pornel 4y agoFrom a reader perspective I thought the value of medium was a clean, simple reading experience, unlike popup-laden attention-seeking articles on news sites. But then medium added all the same popups and nags. I don't wanta sticky cookie popup (which is probably also illegal since it lacks a reject-all button). I don't want to sign in with Google for both of you to track me. I don't want any JavaScript doodads, sticky toolbars, floaty buttons, or messing with text selection. I expect substack to end up exactly the same. It's not the fault of the site, just inevitability of the grow-capture-monetize playbook.