- Take an arbitrary article as an example: https://medium.com/popular-science/twitter-is-killing-its-te...
- Extract the article id 58d900b2ac8.
- Hit the url medium.com/p/58d900b2ac8/notes which returns a JSON-ish object.
- Find the webCanonicalUrl. In our case it looks like "webCanonicalUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/twitter-mac-app-dead-applications-rep...
- Go to that instead.
Neat trick.
Edit: Medium appears to have caused webCanonicalURL to always be empty in response to this.