I am sure this wasn’t the intended use - but I discovered a useful trick on Android.
Just recently, Google released a Reading Mode app that takes text and removes the clutter, images, etc - and allows you to read in a high contrast easy to view format. There are options on how to toggle it on, but I chose to use the hold volume up/down at the same time.
I was viewing a local paywalled newspaper, and had surpassed my 3 free articles/month. For the heck of it, while the popup blocked me from reading it, I tried the reading mode shortcut. It pulled in all the text and I was able to read the entire story. I then tried another news site and it worked the same way. I even tried some of the big new sites like the Washington Post - and it worked.
I am sure its a bit dependent on how the website is built, but its worth a try if you find yourself running into those paywalls. You lose the photos, but its worth it.
Another way to bypass paywalls (especially the ones that restrict content directly from the server) is archive.today. It basically has bots (sometimes with accounts, for example if it’s a LinkedIn link) that will open up the page for you if it’s the first time the link is accessed on archive.today, then the bot will render it without Javascript and will save a snapshot on the server, and you then get to see the latter.
I use this a lot. Got the sharchive app from f-droid, so I can share articles to it to quickly bring up.