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krishna
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Read blocked medium stories without subscription

tl;dr — In medium.com, if a premium story is blocked like below, open the article link in browser’s private tab without logging into medium account. The article will get opened. Been using this hack for a while now. Make hay while the sun shines!

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Same content unblocked in browser's private window
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I started to not like medium after they switched from free to premium service. Users can read only 3 premium stories for free/month, common guys that’s too less, also we, the users read a title and open it if we find it interesting. We do not bother whether it is a premium story or not and before we realize the count is 3 and we cannot read more premium content. IMHO this is not fair, users contribute amazing content to the site and the business is expecting the same users to subscribe makes me feel that the business is too money-minded and I don like it.

These days I follow and write in https://dev.to more than medium.com. dev.to feels at home, with fellow developers contributing amazing content.

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