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It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.

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ChrisLovejoy|5 years ago

Didn't realise Medium was like this - I've just uploaded the article to my personal blog: https://chrislovejoy.me/youtube-algorithm/

Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.

typicalbender|5 years ago

Here is what it looked like for me after I signed in to Medium[1]. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Incognito allowed me to bypass this requirement as suggested by another user.

[1]: https://ibb.co/rQ0kVxq

heavyset_go|5 years ago

Ping dang or send them an email through the contact link at the bottom of HN.

corobo|5 years ago

Just for another anecdata I must have clicked two other articles hosted by Medium at some point today so I also can't see it - cheers for the alternate link!

EricE|5 years ago

Thank you - I was getting the same from Medium. Just slightly less pernicious than Facebook. Slightly.

mellosouls|5 years ago

Try it in incognito tab in Chrome, or equivalent in another browser; that (Chrome Incognito) normally sorts it for me on Medium.

typicalbender|5 years ago

I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in:

> Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.

Which makes it sounds like this is a paid article regardless. Incognito worked though thank you.

mromanuk|5 years ago

To avoid this type of spam or paywall:

  1. Open it with Incognito
  2. Setup and forget: use https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for firefox)
  3. using a website like outline: https://outline.com/7eq6fK

(this one has the article)