Shmedium

Shmedium

Shmedium is a Firefox extension that detects Medium.com paywall articles when navigating through Google Search and will flag them appropriately. This does not work for custom domains using a Medium back-end for blogging.

What is Shmedium?
Shmedium is a Firefox extension that detects and flags Medium.com paywall articles in Google Search results.
Merlin
Stats
Users: N/A
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2022-01-14)
Creation date: 2022-01-13
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • webNavigation
  • *://*.google.com/*
  • *://*.medium.com/*
  • *://localhost/*
Size: 29.77K
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Summary

Shmedium is a Firefox extension that detects Medium paywall articles when navigating through Google Search and will flag them appropriately.

Safety
Risk impact

Shmedium is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Shmedium if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Shmedium has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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