[geofft]

> It’s annoying to have to open these links in incognito

Note that the thing that looks like a paywall isn't - while Medium does have paywalled articles, they're rare (and as far as I can tell this one isn't) and at the discretion of the author, not of Medium, anyway. Medium aggressively wants you to sign up if you've read more than n articles in a month, but you can just click the X and read n+1 articles.

[danek]

We must have gotten different versions. I’m on mobile and my paywall didn't have an X to close it. I have seen the thing you’re talking about on desktop though..

[zinodaur]

There seem to be two versions of the paywall for this article - one you can click an x on and one you can't. Which version you get seems to depend on if you have Adblocking enabled when you visit the site.