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If you're on Firefox there's an extension to bypass this (only for Medium's free articles) - https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https

• metadat 4y ago
  I'm not keen on playing the browser plugin escalation game with fundamentally UX hostile sites like Medium. They clearly have no respect for the human being at the end of the line trying to simply read a document.
  • thatguy0900 4y ago
    This is extremely melodramatic. They literally just want money so they don't have to run ads
    • JohnFen 4y ago
      For this article, anyway, they don't want money. At least, the form claims that signing up is free -- so they just want an account created. (Which I'm not OK doing, because that tells me that they want to track me, presumably for advertising purposes.)
    • waynesonfire 4y ago
      i want money toooooo.
    • wpietri 4y ago
      It's worse than that. They took at least $163m in venture money: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium/company_finan... They've been flailing around for a decade in search of a model that works. If UX hostility is what it takes to have a story that retroactively justifies the investment, UX hostility is what we'll get.
• demindiro 4y ago
  There is also LibRedirect[1] which automatically redirects to an alternative frontend. [1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect