# 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.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `shmedium`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** justincarver
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-01-14
- **First published:** 2022-01-13
- **Size:** 29 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shmedium/)

## Description

Shmedium is a Firefox extension that detects and flags Medium.com paywall articles in Google Search results.

## Rankings

- #136,834 — Overall
- #144 — medium

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webNavigation`
- `*://*.google.com/*`
- `*://*.medium.com/*`
- `*://localhost/*`

### Content script matches

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

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com, medium.com, localhost
- 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/shmedium)