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Comment by typicalbender | Hacker News Reader

It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.

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Didn't realise Medium was like this - I've just uploaded the article to my personal blog: https://chrislovejoy.me/youtube-algorithm/

Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.

Here is what it looked like for me after I signed in to Medium[1]. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Incognito allowed me to bypass this requirement as suggested by another user.

[1]: https://ibb.co/rQ0kVxq

Ping dang or send them an email through the contact link at the bottom of HN.

Just for another anecdata I must have clicked two other articles hosted by Medium at some point today so I also can't see it - cheers for the alternate link!

Thank you - I was getting the same from Medium. Just slightly less pernicious than Facebook. Slightly.

Try it in incognito tab in Chrome, or equivalent in another browser; that (Chrome Incognito) normally sorts it for me on Medium.

I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in:

> Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.

Which makes it sounds like this is a paid article regardless. Incognito worked though thank you.

I'm pretty sure the intended reading of "Not every story on Medium is free, like this one." is "This one is free, but not every story on Medium is."

I think you're right however the only action it gave me was an "Upgrade" button. As far as I could tell there was nothing I could do to continue to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Here's the only thing I saw[1].

[1]: https://ibb.co/cLxMDMV

To avoid this type of spam or paywall:

  1. Open it with Incognito
  2. Setup and forget: use https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for firefox)
  3. using a website like outline: https://outline.com/7eq6fK

(this one has the article)

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