# BetterMedium

> Find author-shared Friend Links and public medium stories in the Gmail digest you opened.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettermedium](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettermedium)

## Overview

- **ID:** `bettermedium`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** onurvatansever
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03
- **First published:** 2026-07-31
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bettermedium/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/onurvatansever/bettermedium/issues](https://github.com/onurvatansever/bettermedium/issues)

## Description

A Firefox extension that finds freely accessible stories in your Medium email digests. It shows public stories and author-shared Friend Links in one place. BetterMedium does not bypass Medium’s paywall.

## Rankings

- #84,769 — Overall
- #58 — medium

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`

### Host permissions

- `https://medium.com/*`
- `https://*.medium.com/*`
- `https://mail.google.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `mail.google.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com, medium.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettermedium)