Date: May 23, 2024

Bypass Medium Paywall

I found this cool way of bypassing the medium.com's pay wall.
Well, not exactly bypassing it, but rather reading the content without paying.

Let's take this random ironic blog I found: Blog
Why ironic? because It's literally paywalled.

We use Google cache to view the contents of the article.
Google keeps backup of the web pages in a database called the Google Cache.

To view the contents of blog, simply append your medium/tds URL to the following URL:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:

Then select the "Text-version" option.
You have succesfully bypassed the Paywall!!

Demo: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://medium.com/@s7ryker/this-site-is-bypassing-medium-coms-paywall-24173dc9b3a4