Medium Unplugged

Name: Medium Unplugged
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Kheoh Yee Wei

Remove everything except the content of a Medium article, the result of which is a fast and calm reading experience.

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A normal Medium article comes with a ton of baggage that gets in the way of reading- paywall, popup, user-tracking javascript, recommendation and etc. This extension removes all that and purely gives you the static content.

Features

Blazing fast
Support embedded contents and gists
Syntax highlighting
Bypass the Medium paywall
Surface author's RSS feed for easy subscription

Roadmap

Supports major publications without relying on static list of domains
Dark mode
Add additional values for syndicated posts from personal sites

Video https://vimeo.com/525282014

Known issue Medium seems to have caught on to the twitter url hack as a workaround their paywall. I'm occupied with another project now. In the meantime, I suggest this free service https://scribe.rip

Add-on

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

1.1.0 Last updated: 2021-06-15

Version code:

5251663

Creation date:

2021-03-03

Risk:

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
https://medium.com/*
https://*.medium.com/*
https://gist.github.com/*

Size:

35.77KB

Email:

kw*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2025-07-18

Ranking

# 20,966 ▲ 461

Other rankings

#19 in medium keyword 13 #123 in plug keyword 33 #167 in plugin keyword 62 ▲ 3 #227 in article keyword 22 ▲ 1

User reviews

Breaks Medium as of 2025-06-19. Appears unsupported.

by Be*****, 2025-06-19

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Medium Unplugged requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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