Make Medium Readable Again
Improves the Medium reading experience, ruined by user engagement tactics.
Make Medium Readable Again: Enhance Your Medium Experience
'Make Medium Readable Again' is a Firefox add-on designed to enhance reading on Medium. It removes various user engagement tactics such as sticky navigation bars, large header images, unwanted pop-ups and more, thus offering an improved and distraction-free reading environment for Medium users.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 3
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- storage
- https://*/*
Size: 16.11K
Email: he*****@write.as
URLs: Website
Ranking
# 3,210
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Add-on summary
Medium is pretty annoying to read when you're not logged in. This extension quietly fixes that on any Medium publication you visit.
It makes your reading experience more bearable by:
- Keeping the top navigation bar from sticking around
- Hiding the bottom "Get Updates" bar completely
- Shrinking massive header images
- Hiding "posts meter" bar and Upgrade header button
- Hiding "Open in App" button on mobile
- Blocking the "pardon the interruption" popup
- (Optionally) hiding the clap / share bar
- (Optionally) loading all post images up front, instead of lazy loading as you scroll
- (Optionally) disabling the popup menu that appears when selecting text
This extension is open source software! Want to contribute? Feel free: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Fixes annoying features on Medium
- Improves readability of Medium articles
- Essential for small computers
Cons
- Stopped working for some users
- Requires access to data for all websites
- Seems to have been abandoned by developers
Most mentioned
- Stopped working
- Improves readability
- Access to data for all websites
User reviews
"Access your data for all websites" permission is unacceptable.
I understand medium sites can use custom domains, but this should be an option, not mandatory.
by Alex Yancey, 2024-07-12
by rom85, 2023-09-04
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Make Medium Readable Again requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Make Medium Readable Again is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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