Incognito gets you around this. I know it's beside the point. However incognito is the laziest of bypasses to a subscription-wall which tells me Medium aren't really behind it as a strategy anyway.
to reiterate what you said, since others are trying to be helpful and giving other workarounds:
this is besides the point. for such a simple task as publishing static text, we've got what, yet another $7.99 (or whatever), a month fee? yes, medium provides some benefit to both authors and readers, and some may find it worth it, others won't.
But it's static text. www.pacbell.net/~username, or Geocities may not have been so glamorous; capitalism has an odor all its own.
(inb4 I get ad-homonym'd for having personally benefitted from capitalism)
It's $5. All of that money goes to the authors right now (VC is funding the operations). Plus in the case of this article, some additional money went to an editor and copy editor.
I use uMatrix with a global deny of everything. When going to a site never previously visited uMatrix then puts up a big warning sign indicating that the entire site is blocked. That's handy to increase anti-phishing defense depth too.
I do the same, its annoying for a while, but worth it.
Now I just need a way to sync my settings between browsers, devices, phones and pc. I want one Dark Reader, uBlock, and uMatrix profile across firefox, chrome/brave/vivaldi, and phone.
Lately I've been using Forget Me for Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forget-me-clean-hi... One click wipes cookies, history, and local and session storage for the current site. It works on the NYT and everything else I've tried so far.
Or just deleting the medium cookies (two clicks, same tab, no incognito needed).
If there is an easy way to block all cookies from a specific domain without an extension, that would be nice too..
this is besides the point. for such a simple task as publishing static text, we've got what, yet another $7.99 (or whatever), a month fee? yes, medium provides some benefit to both authors and readers, and some may find it worth it, others won't.
But it's static text. www.pacbell.net/~username, or Geocities may not have been so glamorous; capitalism has an odor all its own.
(inb4 I get ad-homonym'd for having personally benefitted from capitalism)