[truncate]

Still reading the article, and I'm enjoying it so far.

My only complain is the design of your blog. The header and the footer (to subscribe on Medium) takes so much space that there is relatively less space to read to actual content.

https://imgur.com/a/pBUmIvp

[rehemiau]

I can recommend the browser extension "Make Medium Readable Again":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r...

[mercer]

This add-on can "Access your data for all websites".

That seems both risky and somewhat overkill considering its features. Does Firefox not support targeting a specific domain yet? Or is part of the problem that medium allows custom domains (it does, right?).

[roryokane]

Firefox does support targeting specific domains, so the add-on specifically chose to apply to all domains by writing "https://*/*" in "permissions" in manifest.json. It probably asks for this permission because of custom domains, as you theorize.

I can see in the extension source (thanks to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/) that on every page, the extension uses JavaScript to check for a top nav bar or a login nag popup and hide them if present, then applies CSS that hides five other UI elements if they are present.

[mercer]

Am I current in assuming that if the add-on was not manually installed, it could be updated at any time to include malicious code? Or is that just Chrome's behavior perhaps?

[truncate]

I wonder if there could be uBlock/AdBlock filter made for medium in general to block all this. I dunno the format of filter files, but it was easy to add a uBlock rule for a particular element using UI.

[gpmcadam]

Isn't this the same for all Medium blogs?

[truncate]

You are right. :(

[jklp]

I hate this too but I think it's intentional - as once you sign in the banner will disappear on scroll

[type0]

This makes me wonder what else they'll "invent" before it becomes completely unreadable