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If the page loads completely then yes it redirects to medium.com. But you can read the article by interrupting the redirect and clicking the stop button.
by thisisit 8y ago
If the page loads completely then yes it redirects to medium.com. But you can read the article by interrupting the redirect and clicking the stop button.
- scandox 8y agoThis is true. It took me five goes, but I am over 40 and my mouse finger is not what it was.
- dangelov 8y agoJust hitting Esc on the keyboard should also work to stop the redirect/load.
- StavrosK 8y agoWhy mouse? Click the link and press escape. You youngsters with your mouses.
- lostlogin 8y agoAnd there you go, it turns out that ‘mouses’ is an accepted pleural for a computer mouse. Less horrible than ‘Magic Trackpad 2 — Silvers’ I suppose.
- larkeith 8y agoFor future reference, you can rate limit bandwidth with dev tools in Chrome (and probably Firefox), which makes it a lot easier to dodge redirects in situations like this.
- girvo 8y agoThis also works for a lot of paywalls. Combine with Reader view in Safari and you’re in business
- nasredin 8y agoRequestPolicy on Firefox stops redirects cold.
- superkuh 8y agoIt never even happens if you don't have javascript enabled. Unfortunately as of last year archive.org changed their site and wayback machine design so that it is no longer possible to use without javascript.