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> Create an account to read the full story. No. I shall not. > To make Medium work, we log user data. By using Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy, includ
by fefe23 3y ago
> Create an account to read the full story.
No. I shall not.
> To make Medium work, we log user data. By using Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy.
That's now how this works.
Please don't use Medium, post to Medium, or share Medium links.
Sites like this are a cancer on the Internet.
- kbns 3y agoincluding quora.
- sparrowInHand 3y agoquora is ccp owned by now?
- wutwutwat 3y ago[flagged]
- tim333 3y agoYou can get it here without https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-laptop-that-wont-die-0c478c3fe46c https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
- tonystubblebine 3y agoThe author put this behind a paywall. How is that any different to you than Substack or the NYTimes?
- scblock 3y agoThose are both unusable too. If only the author had put it on his own blog like in the good old days.
- close04 3y agoThe paywall is the author's choice and anyone is free to reject creating a Medium account, no damage done on either side. OP's second objection on the other hand looks less "rejectable" than a paywall because the damage is done before you have the chance to reject it: > By using Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. Medium's implicit assumption that by clicking on their link the user accepted the policies is illegal under GDPR. It doesn't give the chance to reject before being tracked.
- sodapopcan 3y agoOP made a plea, not a demand: > Please don't use Medium, post to Medium, or share Medium links. There was no implication people don't have a choice to keep using terrible software.
- close04 3y agoYou misunderstood me, it wasn't OP's implication, it's Medium's. Medium implies that by clicking on their link I agreed with their ToS/cookies (so tracking). This is not just a wrong implication, it's an illegal one. The person I was replying to above only referred to the paywall issue when I think the main basis for the initial plea to avoid Medium was the second point, Medium's objectionable or illegal practices (not just "terrible") against its users. It's sensible to plea not using it or at least not promoting it here.
- jjeaff 3y agoIllegal where? In the EU? I don't think it is illegal in the US at least.
- sodapopcan 3y agoAh gotcha, my mistake.
- leke 3y agoI had this from another medium post I tried to access today. Have they locked down everything recently? Sounds like possible enshittification.
- tonystubblebine 3y agoThat’s a choice the author makes.
- kejns 3y agoThat's incorrect, and at this point, it seems like you either don't know Medium or are engaging in gaslighting here. The Medium paywall is not always a choice, as Medium has placed many stories behind it without the creators' consent and doesn't pay everyone either. Furthermore, you guys display those paywall ads on all articles now. I'm not referring to the OP's case but speaking generally. Although it does seem that Clive, being a blogger, is apparently under a secret contract with Medium to write premium content for the website.
- tonystubblebine 3y agoThe paywall is definitely always a choice and the choice is only available to people who get paid.
- kejns 3y agoThen how are my stories marked as member-only when I had never enabled the paywall. It doesn’t seem like a choice for writers.
- tonystubblebine 3y agoCan you give me a link to an example?