I use GitHub pages a lot. They work. But I also feel that all-eggs-in-one-basket isn't a great idea. I should look at playhing with Cloudflare Pages at some point.
I've not really kept up with the WordPress drama, but I'm aware that it's ongoing and bizarre. This blog post seems to do a reasonable job of helping catch up on what's what.
Paywall removal tool. These seem to be a bit of a moving target (or rather the success with which they work is), so it's good to have a collection of them.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Interesting site/paper detailing instances of "dark patterns" in online retail. Instances of website design that seek to manipulate the customer into doing things they may not have wanted or intended.