Don’t Lead by Example

Re:Don’t Lead by Example by clusmore on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:02AM (#19232125)

Off-topic, I'm sorry but I just can't help it, the aggressive modal that pops up instantly when you view Medium enough as a non-signed in user drives me away instantly. I can't imagine continuing to post content on a platform that treats my readers so poorly.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by taneq on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:37AM (#19232235)

Ugh, I hate this. If a web site nags me like this, the one thing I will NOT do is whatever the popup wants.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by alasdair_ on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:35PM (#19234769)

"Don't every close this page without subscribing!"

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by baloki on Saturday February 23, 2019 @05:39AM (#19232662)

If you’re using Safari, hitting the reading mode button in the address bar disables it and also gets rid of anything not related to the content which is nice. Works on a lot of sites too.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by EvilTerran on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:46AM (#19233296)

Firefox's Reader View works great on Medium too.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by expertentipp on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:23AM (#19233225)

Medium is the new experts exchange. I loathe each time someone sends me a link to yet another blog post on this platform.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by pnw_hazor on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:51AM (#19232421)

I have blacklisted medium.com so I will remember to never go their site. It works.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by jlengrand on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:10AM (#19232468)

It actually annoyed me enough that I made a chrome extension to auto-close them : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closeme/llkndphpek... ...

I'm at about 2733 auto-closed popups so far.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by kierenj on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:18AM (#19232486)

The link is broken, would you be able to fix please?

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by clusmore on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:30AM (#19232521)

I believe he is referring to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closeme/llkndphpek...

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by jlengrand on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:34AM (#19232531)

Thanks, you were faster than me. Source is here : https://github.com/jlengrand/closeme

Don't expect too much. I did this in 3 hours out of frustration :).

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by rdlecler1 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:37AM (#19232240)

I’ve unbookmarked them and deleted their emails.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by disqard on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:34AM (#19232373)

My strategy is to avoid Medium posts.

I usually check out the comments to see if it's worth the annoyance, and if there's strongly positive feedback, I will read it.

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Re:Don’t Lead by Example by croisillon on Saturday February 23, 2019 @06:56AM (#19232897)

At least the post is not complaining that people are writing on proprietary platforms instead of each own's website.

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