I usually mentally filter any links that I see that are on medium, and actively block them from search results.
Old articles like yours can be read to the end, but with a banner blocking a third of the page, and nearly 100% of new articles I've come across in the past year get a nice paywall right at the entire reason I clicked on the article. All the new articles that aren't blocked are worthless content I wish I hadn't clicked on.
I should probably just self host all my stuff and stop assuming decent platforms are going to continue being reasonable because they always seem to break themselves
Old articles like yours can be read to the end, but with a banner blocking a third of the page, and nearly 100% of new articles I've come across in the past year get a nice paywall right at the entire reason I clicked on the article. All the new articles that aren't blocked are worthless content I wish I hadn't clicked on.