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Off-topic: Can someone please write a Firefox extension that removes that _stupid_ fucking popover on medium "Pardon blah blah give us your money". Does that shit really need to take over the entire fucking screen?

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Really nice tip: Click the little keylock on the left side of the address bar when on medium, go into site settings, under javascript block it and medium articles will now load as just pure easy to read text :)

For me it removes images when doing this. I'm only surprised they don't require JS to display text yet.

The next version will use microservices where every single character on the page will be downloaded and rendered by a different web worker. Good for concurrency!

Plus, makes it easy to slap on a paywall for the vowels.

And an extra paywall for ligatures. That's the ultra-premium gourmet club.

Unsure why the images don't load, better than nothing I suppose?

I don't see this feature? FF 70.0.1

Admittedly I am a bit of an idiot here, I didn't see the fact the person was using Firefox, the way I described it is how it is done on Chromium browsers but I cannot find a way to do it natively in Firefox (aside from downloading the NoScript extension). Hope that helps...

I think uBlock Origin with one of the annoyances lists blocks this

I have uBlock Origin installed and just received the popover :(

This should work (add it to "my filters" in uBlock settings and click the checkmark/apply button):

  medium.com##div[tabindex="-1"][aria-modal="true"]

Tested in FF 70 with uBlock Origin and tracking protection enabled.

EDIT: Here's a simple blocklist with more Medium banners and popups. Can be added via "Import…" at the bottom of "Filter lists" tab in uBlock Origin settings. I'll try to update it when i encounter some new Medium stupidity:

https://helb.gitlab.io/medium.com-blocklist/medium-blocklist...

If you hit the (monthly?) quota for articles without an account, just clear cookies & localstorage.

Make sure you've ticked on all the filter lists in the preferences.

This userscript works well: https://github.com/meinhimmel/tampermonkey-scripts/blob/mast...

Block Javascript with uMatrix or similar, problem gone.

I wonder what the signup rate is. Does anybody actually start paying them money after getting this slammed in their face?

Medium Unlimited?

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