The less sites use such dark patterns the better. And a beads up is nice so people like me who avoided clicking twitter links because I couldn’t be bothered with their gated content might give it another shot. Now if reddit does the same it would be great!

Someone claimed he'd already removed it a while back, then I saw it again.

Possibly it's just not consistent (and/or broken)?

If we have to be objective, that's a positive step. Of course, coming on the whim of a mercurial CEO, he may re-add it tomorrow.

Of course it is. Geez.