"Chickenshit Minimalism - The illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."
https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...
(The article is also available on my personal site - about 18kb all in - for anybody who would like to read it not on a slow and increasingly walled garden website.)
Which redirect extension do you use?
I really didn't realize how much I dislike Medium as a reader until now. I guess I got used to waiting 3-5 seconds to get the content. What's even worse is the constant noise, some of which stays even after the initial loading phase: cookie banner, login with Google, "applaud the article" (or whatever Medium's like button is), stats about the creator and the post, 5 different containers to ask me to read something else immediately...
No wonder most of the time I don't get to read a full article on Medium: they constantly bother me to do anything else but reading the article.