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> Pardon the interruption. We see you’ve read on Medium before - there’s a personalized experience waiting just a few clicks away. Ready to make Medium yours?
by egdod 7y ago
> Pardon the interruption. We see you’ve read on Medium before - there’s a personalized experience waiting just a few clicks away. Ready to make Medium yours?
Why in the world do I need an account to read a glorified blog? It’s text data, I should be able to consume it with curl if I’m so inclined.
- pschastain 7y agoClick that little "x" in the upper left corner of the pop-up.
- egdod 7y agoI just instinctively hit reader view on my iPad, and that worked too.
- bureaucrat 7y agoThis. I hope there will be some kind of option like ‘open this link in reader mode’.
- dwaite 7y agoI think you can set reader view as default for a domain in safari (going forward)
- zuppy 7y agoThere is an overlay setting in Safari on iOS 13, but I think it was on 12 aswell but harder to get to it (I think you have to tap and hold the reader icon)
- shandor 7y agoWhat a great idea. I would use that so much. Firefox reader mode is already pretty good, this would be an icing on the cake.
- ciberado 7y agoI use this addon for FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/automatic-reader-view https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/automatic-reader...
- omgbear 7y agoYou can even just press esc!
- lscotte 7y agoMedium is terrible, I don't quite understand why people allow a company to monetize their blog for medium's gain. But, that's their choice, not mine.
- derwiki 7y agoTraffic
- arthurcolle 7y agoContent discovery via Medium itself is extremely poor, so this isn't really a complete answer on its face.
- rocqua 7y agoThe ability to handle traffic is what was meant.
- cameronbrown 7y agoI don't think it was. Handling blog traffic is not difficult.
- ghaff 7y agoIt’s a convenient place to publish the odd posting or two. I’ve also found that there’s some (unwarranted) perceived credibility plus it can be a good place to link that’s not mixed in with random personal stuff. I use it for professional stuff that needs to be linked to but which isn’t on an official blog property of some sort. I do keep a personal blog but sometimes cross-post to Medium.
- rainyMammoth 7y agoever since Facebook, youtube and other mega platforms, people seem to forget that a decentralized web also means that you should host your own content. I agree with you and find it sad that everything on internet today is hosted by some of those mega tech companies that dictate their laws and what we can and cannot see.
- llarsson 7y agoMedium works mostly ok with JavaScript off. Some images don't show, but all the text, and no nagging.
- katzeilla 7y agoHow about disable JS/Cookies for Medium?
- sakisv 7y agoThat works like a charm and takes care the most obnoxious aspects of reading something in medium but there is a caveat: Images seem to be loading gradually as you scroll, so if you disable js you might miss some of them. This is the add-on I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javascript/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
- wodenokoto 7y agoThe thing is, it doesn't get better when you log in. I deleted my account shortly after creating it, because medium kept nagging me about stuff.
- msvan 7y agoSo that they can make money by tracking you. Curl does not give money to Medium.