Boycott Medium and maybe eventually the pain will stop?

I usually default to allowing first-party JS, but Medium is perhaps my only exception to that default. It's much less painful without.

With no pop-ups or banners, it's almost a pleasant reading experience.

(You might need to block cookies too.)

Block cookies and JS? I obviously don't count how many Medium articles I've read, but I've read quite a few and never encountered that, unless they've only started doing it within the past few days.

Firefox Focus [1] works well in such situations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus

> I suppose private browsing works well.

For the moment it does.

Ingognito!