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Comment by nottorp | Hacker News Reader

Dear Medium,

Can you stop pressuring me to register when I open a link to you? I closed the tab without reading the article, and soon you'll piss me off enough that i'll remember to not open medium links...

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Report those on the In-Page Popup Reporter https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...

Link is a search result redirect to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...

I've installed this Firefox addon last week: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r... . I highly recommend it.

Thanks for having reminded me how awful was the medium experience before; I hadn't even noticed I was on this site.

IMO you're doing it wrong. If they don't want you as a reader, why use a workaround?

Because the content is still decent.

They want me as a reader but they also want money. Since I don’t browse news articles with a fist full of e-credits this is the best choice of their options. NYT absolutely will not let you read without paying, I suppose you’d prefer that.

For the same reason I use an ad blocker. I don't care if they don't want me as a reader. What matters is that I want to read that content.

Firefox and Safari have "reading mode" which helps when you really need to read that article.

Reader view: for when a website's design is worse than using none at all.

Medium is as bad as reddit to me, with medium's open in app sticky float and constant sign up pop-ups. Reddit has their extremely deceptive open in app pop-up that also asks you to stay (meaning LEAVING the page and going to their app on the play store for installation) or to leave (meaning to stay on the page). I use reader mode on ff as it lets me read the information without the distraction of anger.

Pardon the interruption.

I'd recommend blocking all javascript by default. Medium is perfectly readable that way. Most sites are even more readable that way.

I second this, and I'll add that uMatrix allows you to block JS by default while giving you the versatility to manually whitelist domains.

Medium = YouTube for textual content.

What do you expect?

I disagree. Medium lost its luster a while ago. Personally I don't even bother with medium links anymore. It's usually low quality content in a format that makes it difficult to even consume.

Dear nottorp,

Can you please fight this battle elsewhere and keep your comments on topic? I know it’s irritating. I agree. Just not the right place in my opinion. I came here looking for comments on the article.

Thanks,

Branching conversations? In my internet discussion board?

I agree with you but there's other ways to do this than yet another unrelated comment.

Where? On Medium? I don't read the site unless it's linked to on HN...

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