That’s an extremely interesting link, thank you.

In Medium's defense, the idea is that, if you want to go ad-free while still being able to pay content creators anything at all, you need some other revenue source, and, as far as I can tell, the only other option that's seen any success at scale is paywalls. There's a pretty direct in, in one breath, complaining about paying for authors' work, and also complaining that authors don't get paid enough for their work.

(Before someone mentions Patreon or Tippee - both of those are platforms for erecting paywalls.)

I didn't encounter a paywall? Firefox w/uBlock Origin.

this.