FWIW using Medium is actually driving readers away because of how invasive their practices are. They pop things up, interrupt reading and in general they seem t

FWIW using Medium is actually driving readers away because of how invasive their practices are. They pop things up, interrupt reading and in general they seem to have added so much bloat/tracking to their blog that it loads terribly. If I must read a Medium article I do so in Firefox's reader mode, but usually the friction/irritation just drives me to click close on the tab and move on to something less offensive.