Make Medium Readable Again

Make Medium Readable Again

Neutralizes annoying parts of the Medium reading experience and lets you read again.

What is Make Medium Readable Again?
The 'Make Medium Readable Again' Chrome extension modifies the Medium platform to improve the user's reading experience. It eliminates elements that are considered disturbing e.g. sticky navigation bars and pop-up interruptions. It also offers options like pre-loading images and disabling highlight menu. It functions across all sites due to Medium publications being on custom domains. Open-source and frequently updated, this extension aims to truly make Medium 'readable' again.
Stats
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 3.54 (93)
Version: 1.5.2 (Last updated: 2018-10-22)
Creation date: 2018-10-22
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://*/*
Size: 11.02K
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Make Medium Readable Again
Make Medium Readable Again (v1.5.2)
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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

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Really cool
  • Does what it says it does
Cons
  • Doesn't work anymore
  • USELESS
  • Attention required for a fix
Most mentioned
  • not working
  • doesn't work
  • Does not work
Recent reviews
Doesn't work any more here either.
by Andrew Box Andrew Box, 2024-02-01

doesn't work any more
by Sathish Kumaravelu Sathish Kumaravelu, 2023-12-21

doesn't work.
by Nick Tsangaris Nick Tsangaris, 2023-12-13
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Safety
Risk impact

Make Medium Readable Again may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Make Medium Readable Again has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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