I know that there are more pressing issues in this world of poverty and famine, but I would still like to be able to use spacebar while reading medium.com. Hit the one key that I know scrolls down a page, the one that works in every other site I've visited as long as I can remember. I want to keep reading and punching the longest key in my keyboard with a cup of coffee on my other hand.

Medium.com seems to have a lot of interesting articles, but the competition of interesting things to read is fierce. Every little bit that nags works for the competition, and every time I need to scroll down my mind pops out of the article to curse the sites behavior.

I could rant how irresponsible and idiotic it is to break common conventions how pages behave in browsers, but I'm not going to ;) I just hope the message somehow gets through to the people responsible at medium.com. The email didn't seem to have an impact.

I used to feel the same.

Then I realized that hype is just that and fanboyism is just a lack of perspective. They don't affect me. The stories, however, occasionally contain little gems. Like this one; I became aware of SAGA :) I will definitely take a closer look at it later.

Mostly I just enjoy the fact that nothing coming out from Apple affects me and watch the whole show as a grand social experiment :)

I used to have the same problem. The solution is to use multiple profiles in firefox. My default profile is tightened with noscript and such. The other one I only use for payments.

To set up a new profile, use:
firefox -ProfileManager

And to launch your new "payments" profile:
firefox -P payments --no-remote

The --no-remote -part tells firefox not to just open a new tab with the possibly already running default profile firefox.