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You might like this extension [0] for Firefox and Chrome that removes the sticky header and footer from Medium sites.

Also goes away if you log into Medium.. but your suggestion is better if you don't want to set up a login!

Thanks to using reader mode in Safari by default... I had no idea what you were talking about. I find few sites delivering any value worth turning it off.

Also, most of their code example are screenshots and thus the code can't be copy/pasted.

A quick and dirty hack for this in Chrome:

- Right-click > Inspect on the menu bar

- Move over the DOM nodes until the header is highlighted correctly

- Hit backspace

- Use delete if you were overzealous in your deleting

It's probably in order to maintain an optimal character count (https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability) without the paragraph being too small.