Comment by wongmjane

Disabling JavaScript and cookies for medium.com domain, and a bunch of uBlock rules [1] should do the job

[1] Here's mine:

medium.com##.metabar

medium.com##.js-stickyFooter

medium.com##.js-postAttributionFooterContainer

medium.com##.js-postActionsFooter .buttonSet

medium.com##.button--follow