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I'm never sure if I like or hate when a site's adblock/article limit/sign in requirement etc is so easy to circumvent.

On the one hand it's good for me, on the other I feel like, couldn't you have put in a bit more effort? if you're going to make it that easy why bother?

(I know it's just because most people don't realise)

I use the excellent Readium bookmarklet[0]. Drag it to your bookmarks bar and whenever you encounter a Medium article you can't read, just click it and problem solved.

[0]https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/

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