In Safari you can ask it to load certain websites with reader view automatically. If you do so, Safari will change to reader view as soon as it can render the page.
This how I deal with the annoying stuff in Medium.
This how I deal with the annoying stuff in Medium.
I deal with it by avoiding medium. Seriously, why support them in any way with page views/whatever if you disagree with their presentation method?
There's a plethora of options.
If you don't want to self host it and be even closer to the hands off approach of Medium you can just buy the hosted version.
A few dollars a month, and it’s like having your own Medium without the bullshit.
Other alternatives like Ghost or Hugh are good but require a bit of install/maintenance work so they’re not for everyone.
Edit: for those wondering, visit a website and long press the reader button on the left side of the address bar to enable.
That is nice. Firefox has an extension called "Open in Reader View" that adds an item to the context menu for links. But one still has to use it explicitly. (AFAIK, at least.)