It would be trivial to, but it's more a matter of principle. You write content for a blog so Medium can monetize it and track your readers? that's good, but I would prefer not to have it on HN.

One can always choose not to read blogs/websites that don't suit their principles (hidden behind paywall). For example, I always look for a comment from some user who has pasted the article behind paywall on archive so as not to increase traffic to the website whose policies I dislike.

That way if the blogs get no significant traffic, they will be motivated to update their content policies. If they continue to get traffic, then the unwilling readers might reconsider to update their principles. It seems like an ideal ecosystem governed by compromise between writer, reader and intermediate the medium.

I actually enjoy reading some Medium articles but I get what you mean.

A more fair approach would be to mark Medium articles and other with sort of an icon that will let us know they have signup/paywall

Every major newspaper does this too.

Agreed. And I'd happily do without.

I'm not a luddite; I have been a subscriber of The Economist for like 20 years and I appreciate what they do. Still, I think that it is not appropriate for HN posts to point to paywalled content.

I’d rather know that the community thinks it’s worth reading and make my own decision to circumvent the paywall, because it keeps us in the good graces of those organizations and they produce interesting articles.