If I can’t use your free website without an account then I ain’t using your website
I have the same mentality, but I also think that Medium might be saying if you don’t want to create an account we don’t want you here.
None of us are wrong here. It’s their site and it our time.
Can’t you just click the x to ignore the ad for a free account?
Lots of websites don’t let you or will only let you access limited sections of the site
Not all medium articles let you read them without an account. I had to make one because it was the only result in Google for something I had to do. I can’t even remember what was, but it solved my problem.
Medium: I don’t think so Tim
I would be ok if they made it audio only unless you pay. Like this guy, you could still hear him lol
Unfair to the deaf though
Difference between Chrome and Firefox with extensions. It’s no wonder so many people use apps (that are mostly just web pages) instead of browsers. The web is rough these days.
What extension is causing that auto dark theme? Specific to medium?
Most likely Dark Reader.
The two comments stating Dark Reader are correct. Not specific to Medium but can be turned on and off per site. Great extension but sometimes causes slowdowns while loading pages on my old hardware debian laptop with little hard drive space left. Rock solid on my phone and higher specced machines.
Dark reader for FF plus Twilight for red light screen overlay on android makes for great low light/dark reading.
Dark reader?
I used to write articles for medium. My content has thousands of views on their platform. I stopped writing the first time they demanded i pay them money to read an article.
Paywalls when I hit them with that web archive site
Care to name the site?
I think that this should be a rule when referring to something so that you don’t have to have everyone asking.
I believe the site is archive.is - it does a great job of bypassing paywalls :D
Thank you.
just doing my part, fuck gatekeeping :D
If I have to wade through pages of “legitimate interest” nonsense, unticking them, then I’m not using your site.
I switched to Firefox on Android about a year ago, with ublock plus. It helps, but doesn’t solve the underlying issue.
I tried finding the original article to see what it looks like for me. And it more or less matches the above, except I think I have more screen real estate on my phone.
https://medium.com/readers-digests/how-the-web-became-unreadable-1838914063bf
ublock origin with cookie, annoyance and social widget blocklists works, no popup on this article
Reader mode in Firefox is great for that
I like that reader mode exists, in the reality we live in I’d rather have it than not, but man if it isn’t a symptom of how fundamentally fucked web browsers are. They added so much crap to web standards that they had to make a mode that disables most of it just to make the web usable.
IMO after Mosaic came out very little of the stuff that went into web browsers was of any value. Flexbox and embedded video, for example, were good, most of the rest was bad.
Just use reader mode, works with most sites
I got a userscript manager called Violentmonkey and installed a version of bypass-paywalls-clean, does me well most of the time, can’t link cuz I might get zapped.
bypass-paywalls-clean
It wasn’t the easiest to download as the git page was in russian, but thanks for the recommendation. Kinda odd BPC has a wikipedia page, hey?
BPC is the real answer. You can install it natively (which for whatever reason works better for me on two news sites of the 20 I regularly read) by downgrading to a version that supports install from file and then upgrading back to latest.
This is too on the nose to not be intentional.
Quote from the 2nd paragraph.
This is one area in which I applaud Medium. They have created a site where anyone can create an aesthetically pleasing blog with minimal effort. The platform provides enough autonomy for blogs to be distinct while still having enough constraints to keep all the posts as visually appealing as possible.
Almost clicked the X myself
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