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Bypass Medium Paywall - Working late 2023 - Greasy Fork, Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey - Click the RAW button to install
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| // ==UserScript== | |
| // @name Medium Paywall Bypass | |
| // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts | |
| // @run-at document-start | |
| // @match *://*.medium.com/* | |
| // @match *://medium.com/* | |
| // @match *://*/* | |
| // @grant none | |
| // @version 2.4 | |
| // @inject-into content | |
| // @updateURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mathix420/e0604ab0e916622972372711d2829555/raw/medium.user.js | |
| // @downloadURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mathix420/e0604ab0e916622972372711d2829555/raw/medium.user.js | |
| // @website https://freedium.cfd | |
| // @author Mathix420, ZhymabekRoman | |
| // @description Don't forget to remove `@match` filters you don't want. | |
| // ==/UserScript== | |
| // initCall is telling us if we need to inject the title observer | |
| function mediumRedirecter(initCall = false) { | |
| if ( | |
| // Allow seeing original articles that were already redirected to freedium. | |
| !window.location.href.endsWith('#bypass') && | |
| // Do not redirect when editing on medium. | |
| !window.location.href.includes("/edit?source=") && | |
| // Detect if we are on a medium website (regardless of the domain) | |
| document.head?.querySelector('meta[property="al:android:url"]')?.content?.includes('medium://p/') | |
| ) { | |
| window.location.href = 'https://freedium.cfd/' + window.location.href; | |
| } else if (initCall && /(.*\.|^)medium\.com$/.test(window.location.host)) { | |
| // Observe <title> changes | |
| new MutationObserver(function(mutations) { | |
| // If title change is detected, check if a freedium redirect is required | |
| if (mutations[0].target.textContent) mediumRedirecter(); | |
| }).observe( | |
| document.querySelector('title'), | |
| { subtree: true, characterData: true, childList: true } | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| mediumRedirecter(true); |
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Thanks for your effort.
The original script works great for me. However, your solution has one small problem: it can't work on domains other than medium.com. Here is a small list of third-party domains:
And so on.