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by dreamrunner

a year ago

How to read Medium articles for free?

Medium has really great articles covering software engineering. But 5$ a month seems very expensive, is there any way through which I can read all the articles (including member only) unlimited times and that too free? TIA

AlwaysOnline

Stealth

a year ago

"$5 seems very expensive" Seriously. You are earning over 1 Lakh a month. You might be spending a lot on leisure activities. Medium subscription comes out to be roughly 400 Rs a month. How will you feel if your customers try to find freebies of your product? How will your company pay you? If you find value and you can pay, please pay for the services. This is the reason why we are infamous in other countries as misers. How will saving 400 Rs help you? You are missing on learning new stuff which can help you upgrade your skills and increase your salary. If you can pay 1000s over a drink on a weekend and you cannot justify a learning subscription, I feel sorry for you my friend.

dreamrunner

Cashfree Payments

a year ago

Your comment really hit me bro, will buy the subscription to read

LeafyVeal14

Stealth

a year ago

Thanks bro.. I just took medium subscription after avoiding for 1 year

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DopeyPoint33

Open

a year ago

Don’t read.

President_Trump

Stealth

a year ago

Real id se aao - AliveYouth

Baingan

Student

a year ago

Also do not crib about startups not being viable/unprofitable or over-hiringand being stupid.. It starts with u.. u wont pay for shit you like

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MetalalGada

Student

a year ago

Quotes "Has really great articles" Cries to Pay LOL

dreamrunner

Cashfree Payments

a year ago

Indian mentality hai, Netflix bhi nhi leta even though I earn 1.1L per month 😅

you

Stealth

a year ago

Le le.

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SweetAnalogy

Stealth

a year ago

Consider buying, it's worth it. I did it last month. Also, buy it from the mobile app and it will cost you INR200 instead of $5.

DrKadaknath

Stealth

a year ago

Bypass Paywalls Clean is what I use. It's excellent. https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Jonathan

Cashfree Payments

a year ago

Still working M

Akku

Nykaa

a year ago

Thanks bro

SaveBugs

Stealth

a year ago

Dude, those people put real efforts to write blogs/articles. For the God sake, buy a subscription if those articles help you.

Nonexistential

Stealth

a year ago

Maybe "12ft.io" can help

coder762

Stealth

a year ago

@Nonexistential not working

dreamrunner

Cashfree Payments

a year ago

Yeah it does not work

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Meteor007

Stripe

a year ago

Block third party cookies for [*.]medium.com in chrome. Working like a charm for years now.

Meteor007

Stripe

a year ago

When you open Medium without logging in, you can read 3 free articles. They keep track of this by storing cookies. If you disable the cookies, they can't keep track of this and hence you can view the articles.

Seeker18

Unnamed

a year ago

IMHO This is one of the most useful subscription

avarava

Stealth

a year ago

This thread is as stupid as asking "how to drink Starbucks coffee for free". Don't be cheap. If you think you will derive value out of it then please pay and support.

BasedCoin

Coinbase

a year ago

See if you can get the subscription reimbursed from your company - under some kind of learning budget

SupportStaff

Others

a year ago

Try wayback machine

Based1776

Remote

a year ago

$5 per month is cheap as hell man, I don’t know what you expect.

GV_influenzer

Student

a year ago

Save them to pocket app by firefox, then you read them offline

GhostMatrix

Stealth

a year ago

Ah just open the page in incognito window

sparrow

Zomato

a year ago

use 12feet

RedOnion

Unnamed

a year ago

https://archive.ph should get you across

SoupySpread

PhonePe

a year ago

You can view them on incognito mode and keep reopening a new window once you exhaust the free limit I believe.

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Stealth

2 years ago

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Stealth

a year ago

Any trick to read the Ken & the morning context?

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