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Comment by clusmore | Hacker News Reader

Off-topic, I'm sorry but I just can't help it, the aggressive modal that pops up instantly when you view Medium enough as a non-signed in user drives me away instantly. I can't imagine continuing to post content on a platform that treats my readers so poorly.

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Ugh, I hate this. If a web site nags me like this, the one thing I will NOT do is whatever the popup wants.

"Don't every close this page without subscribing!"

If you’re using Safari, hitting the reading mode button in the address bar disables it and also gets rid of anything not related to the content which is nice. Works on a lot of sites too.

Firefox's Reader View works great on Medium too.

Medium is the new experts exchange. I loathe each time someone sends me a link to yet another blog post on this platform.

I have blacklisted medium.com so I will remember to never go their site. It works.

It actually annoyed me enough that I made a chrome extension to auto-close them : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closeme/llkndphpek... ...

I'm at about 2733 auto-closed popups so far.

The link is broken, would you be able to fix please?

I believe he is referring to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closeme/llkndphpek...

Thanks, you were faster than me. Source is here : https://github.com/jlengrand/closeme

Don't expect too much. I did this in 3 hours out of frustration :).

I’ve unbookmarked them and deleted their emails.

My strategy is to avoid Medium posts.

I usually check out the comments to see if it's worth the annoyance, and if there's strongly positive feedback, I will read it.

At least the post is not complaining that people are writing on proprietary platforms instead of each own's website.

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