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I've given up trying to read these pages on my phone now, it's just too distracting to have all their UI clutter in the…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"15123971","Fergusman","This has slowly been driving me insane. I will for sure use this. I'd think the bars would be common criticisms and medium would have done something to limit them by now.",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Medium's bars made reading frustrating; a quick extension fixes it","maker",[69],{"id":70,"by":11,"text":71},"15124060","In theory I agree, but reality makes that difficult to adhere to. To me, 15 minutes throwing a browser extension together is worth not being assaulted when I end up on a…",[],"unknown",{"praise":75,"objections":85,"requests":94,"questions":105,"alternatives":116},[76],{"value":77,"source":51,"evidence":78},"Useful for making Medium readable",[79,80,81],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"15124179","OverThere","Wow. Thanks for creating this awesome tool. I've felt the same for a long time.",[86],{"value":87,"source":51,"evidence":88},"Medium's sticky bars are a design problem that users should not need an extension to fix",[89,93],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"15123990","StavrosK","While I applaud the effort, I think you should vote with your X button and stop reading articles that have a hostile UI.",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},[95],{"value":96,"source":51,"evidence":97},"Remove animated gifs between paragraphs as an option",[98,102],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"15124020","dudul","A possible improvement: automatically remove all the f-ing animated gifs people think they really really must insert in between each paragraph.",{"id":103,"by":11,"text":104},"15124333","Love it. If you file a GH issue I'll remember, and add that as an option.",[106],{"value":107,"source":51,"evidence":108},"Does it work on Medium-powered custom domains and when logged out?",[109,112],{"id":110,"by":11,"text":111},"15124901","You'll get a different (less annoying) experience if you're logged in. However if you haven't logged in on a Medium site (these [0][1] might be some), you'll get the annoying…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"15124514","Rjevski","It's really sad to see Medium turning into this. I used to like Medium, now I avoid any site that uses them (which is getting harder as they now allow custom domains).",[117,128,139],{"value":118,"source":51,"evidence":119},"Kill Sticky",[120,124],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"15123993","alekratz","Makes me think of Kill Sticky [0], a small Javascript thing that attempts to remove all sticky headers on a page. 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