Easily done, log out of Medium and the popup on selection will go away. I'm not quite sure what is so terrible about it as you can still do all of your normal

Easily done, log out of Medium and the popup on selection will go away. I'm not quite sure what is so terrible about it as you can still do all of your normal selection actions with no modification and the whole purpose of the selection+popup is to facilitate further discussion of specific phrases within an article. And, while I know it's easy to hate on social media like Twitter, Medium is the new project by the founder of Twitter and you _have_ to have a Twitter account to sign up for it in any case.