# Medium Unplugged

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

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `medium-unplugged`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Kheoh Yee Wei
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,privacy-security,other
- **Daily users:** 14
- **Rating:** 1.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-15
- **First published:** 2021-03-03
- **Size:** 36 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/medium-unplugged/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/kilgarenone/medium-unplugged](https://github.com/kilgarenone/medium-unplugged)

## Description

"Medium Unplugged" is a Firefox add-on that removes all the distractions from Medium articles, providing a fast and calm reading experience. It removes paywalls, popups, user-tracking JavaScript, recommendations, and more, leaving only the static content of the article.

## Rankings

- #28,669 — Overall
- #24 — medium
- #154 — plug

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `medium.com`
- `*.medium.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: medium.com, github.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/medium-unplugged)