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by shawndellysse 2091 days ago
As an aside, I noticed this at the top of of the article:

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I really dislike Medium. I don't want to have a relationship with the blog platform that people use in order to read the article; I want to read the article.
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Shared404 2091 days ago
I have never seen one of those.

I use firefox with NoScript and Privacy Badger, and I disallow cookies. Hopefully this helps.

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nine_k 2091 days ago
Disabling JS does help against Medium nagging. It also disables any active content, which can be not only e.g. animations, but also images loaded from a CDN using a script. So disabling JS cuts both ways.

Frankly, I would really prefer to just pay for articles I liked (as opposed to a subscription), but this option is not available :(

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Shared404 2091 days ago
> It also disables any active content, which can be not only e.g. animations, but also images loaded from a CDN using a script. So disabling JS cuts both ways.

I usually selectively enable JS. If I care enough about the content that's disabled then I'll enable it from some sources for some sites.

> Frankly, I would really prefer to just pay for articles I liked (as opposed to a subscription), but this option is not available :(

This would also be preferable.

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