[crispinb]

Medium is a catastrophe, obviously, but where it does have stuff you want or need to read, just install one of the many cookie-deleting browser extensions. I'm a simpleton so just manually hit a 'delete cookies from this site' button, but there are fancier options that will routinely delete cookies from specified domains, etc.

I haven't yet found a freemium site that either this or turning off javascript doesn't work for.