All these latest tips to unlock Medium members only articles definitely work.
But not all of the methods can bypass both: Short. Sweet. Valuable and Medium Long. Sweet. Valuable.
I highlighted it for each method.
The former site articles are less than 300 words, and the latter one is for articles with 300 plus words.
I have tried them out to ensure they really can get past paywalls of both Medium websites.
Many tips and suggestions how to read Medium for free in Reddit, Quora and even LinkedIn are either/or outdated and cannot work anymore.
I think the tip using medium.rip and scribe.rip are working anymore.
For instance, this rather new LinkedIn article (June 2024), "How to read Medium.com articles for free", still suggesting using browser's private or incognito mode and disable JavaScript to bypass the paywall.
If I am not wrong, these two methods do not get past Medium paywall anymore.
So are: 12ft.io, outline.com, 1ft.io, disable cookies, disable CSS, Bypass Paywalls Clean extension, and Pocket.
Currently if you go to Medium homepage, you cannot find any of the articles.
Click the "Start reading" button, the sign in/subscription box pops up instead.
To get to the Medium articles, go to its explore topics page.
Read more than three Medium articles for free
- Add prefix: https://freedium.cfd/
- Archive.Today
- FreeMedium Chrome extension
- Medium Free Premium Bypass extension
- Medium Unlock extension
- Medium Parser extension
There are still various ways to read unlimited Medium members only articles without an account.
In fact, there are a few browser extensions, which can still remove medium.com paywall.
1. Add https://freedium.cfd/ to article URL
This simple and easy method is by adding this prefix https://freedium.cfd/ in front of the article URL.
For example the article URL is:
https://medium.com/counterarts/what-is-an-antimacassar-760ca178b3aa
Now add https://freedium.cfd/ in front of the URL.
https://freedium.cfd/https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/counterarts/what-is-an-antimacassar-760ca178b3aa
Then press on the "Enter" key, the full article should appear.
Similarly you can use the Freedium site to do it.
2. Archive.Today
This is another easy way to read member only medium articles.
NOTE: This method works for both: Medium site and Long. Sweet. Valuable site.
You use the archiving site Archive.Today to get the full unblocked article.
If the Medium.com article or story has already being archived, then you can read it right away.
If not, then you need to archive it.
This is what you do:
Go to Archive.Today site.
Scroll down a little, there is a black color box with the text: "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots".
Paste the article URL inside the 'query' space, and the search button.
If that particular article is still not archived, it says "No results", together with the list of 5 options to do.
Click the first option, "archive this url".
It would begin loading and archiving the article.
After it has finished archiving it, you can read the member only Medium articles right there.
For convenience, you can install Archive.Today extension for Chrome to your toolbar.
To unblock the article, click the Archive.Today icon (blue globe with orange share symbol).
But for Firefox browser, you need to install this similar One-Click Archive.Today extension.
You click this One-Click Archive.Today icon (white sheet of paper with lines symbol).
3. FreeMedium
Install this Chrome extension to read Medium articles for free by bypassing the paywall.
NOTE: This Chrome extension works only for the Short. Sweet. Valuable Medium site.
Before installing FreeMedium, make sure you have the file archiver utility for Windows WinRAR.
You need it to extract FreeMedium ZIP file.
Now, let's install FreeMedium extension:
Click here to get the code from GitHub.
Next click the green color "Code" button.
A menu box pops up, click "Download ZIP".
A box pops up, with the file name "free-medium-master".
Choose wherever you want to save it on your computer, then click the "Save" button.
Now you should see this ZIP folder wherever you have just saved.
Double click it, and a box pops up, together with a smaller "Please purchase WinRAR license" box.
Close the "Please purchase WinRAR license" box.
Right click "free-medium-master", and a context menu pops up
Click "Extract to a specified folder".
Another box pops up, you can select anywhere you want to extract it to.
If you choose Desktop, then click Desktop, and then the OK button.
Close the WinRAR box.
You can see the extracted folder on the Desktop.
Go to Chrome extension, click the extension icon (puzzle piece symbol) at the top right hand corner of the screen.
It opens the Extensions page.
At the top right hand corner, you can see the Developer mode toggle slider.
Make sure it is enabled (blue color).
Go the top left hand corner, and click the "Load unpacked" button.
A box pops up, look for free-Medium-master folder, which you have just saved it on the Desktop.
Double click it, then click the "extension" folder.
Next, click the "Select Folder" button.
Instantly the FreeMedium extension is installed to your extension page.
Pin FreeMedium icon to your Chrome toolbar.
Now at the bottom right hand corner of the blocked Medium article, you can see the blue color "Read for free" button.
Click it, and the full article should appear there and then.
4. Medium Free Premium Bypass extension
This method of bypassing Medium paywall is similar to the above method #1; using the Google cached pages.
NOTE: This Chrome extension works only for the Short. Sweet. Valuable Medium site.
To install this Chrome extension, go the Chrome Web Store.
Then click "Add to Chrome" button.
A box pops up, click "Add extension".
After you have installed it, pin it to the toolbar.
Click the locked-out Medium members only article.
You should see a black strip with the remark "Click for a free read!" across the page, below the article title.
Click it, and immediately the article appears, together with an oversized image.
5. Medium Unlock extension
NOTE: This extension works for both: Medium site and Long. Sweet. Valuable site.
Install and pin this Medium Unlock extension to your Chrome browser.
Once you have pin its icon to the toolbar, you can see round edge square box with the letter 'M' inside.
It opens a new tab with the full unblocked article.
6. Medium Parser extension
This Chrome extension also uses the Google web cache or the Archive.is.
NOTE: This extension works for both: Medium site and Long. Sweet. Valuable site.
Go to this Chrome Web Store page to add the Medium Parser extension to your Chrome.
Once you installed the extension, the settings page pops up.
Choose any of the three menu options.
For this guide, I select "Choose options in page (default).
Then click the "Save Changes" button.
Go to the Medium members only article, and you should see a list of options on the right side of the page.
Click any of the choices, except "Open in Freedium" to unlock the Medium paywall.
You should see the complete full article in a new tab.
These are ways of bypassing Medium paywall to read more than three articles for free, without an account.
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