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by burgerdev 3293 days ago
Sorry for being off-topic, but does anyone know why those medium-based sites like signalvnoise, hackernoon, etc. all look super broken on Chrome?
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Are you running anti-tracker extensions? I am seeing the same thing in Firefox with Privacy Badger running. Apparently these kind of pages need images and other resources from medium.com, which is being detected as a potential tracker.

Chalk it up to defective website design.

Thanks, that seems to be the problem indeed.
I run into the same problem in Chrome, using Privacy Badger. However, the Mercury Reader extension does a great job reformatting the page for readability.
If you blocked medium.com to be usable for third party sites, all medium blogs under custom domains lack some resources.
Broken in what way?