diff --git a/packages/content-fetch/fetch-content.js b/packages/content-fetch/fetch-content.js
index fd9a51b56..f90c753ce 100644
--- a/packages/content-fetch/fetch-content.js
+++ b/packages/content-fetch/fetch-content.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const DESKTOP_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_6_0) Apple
 const BOT_DESKTOP_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_6_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4372.0 Safari/537.36'
 const NON_BOT_DESKTOP_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_6_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4372.0 Safari/537.36'
 const NON_BOT_HOSTS = ['bloomberg.com', 'forbes.com']
+const NON_SCRIPT_HOSTS= ['medium.com']
 
 const ALLOWED_CONTENT_TYPES = ['text/html', 'application/octet-stream', 'text/plain', 'application/pdf'];
 
@@ -46,6 +47,20 @@ const userAgentForUrl = (url) => {
   return DESKTOP_USER_AGENT
 };
 
+const enableJavascriptForUrl = async (url) => {
+  try {
+    const u = new URL(url);
+    for (const host of NON_SCRIPT_HOSTS) {
+      if (u.hostname.endsWith(host)) {
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.log('error getting hostname for url', url, e)
+  }
+  return true
+};
+
 // launch Puppeteer
 const getBrowserPromise = (async () => {
   return puppeteer.launch({
@@ -406,6 +421,9 @@ async function retrievePage(url) {
 
   const context = await browser.createIncognitoBrowserContext();
   const page = await context.newPage();
+  if (!enableJavascriptForUrl(url)) {
+    page.setJavaScriptEnabled(false)
+  }
   await page.setUserAgent(userAgentForUrl(url));
 
   const client = await page.target().createCDPSession();