I was thinking about an actual comment from a moderator in a regular thread discussion. In almost all the discussion I've seen from the mods when they talk about "workarounds" they were referring to ways to read the article on the original site.

For example, searching for the article's title to find the link on Google and clicking that, or following the link in a private browsing window (often works for sites that give everyone N free articles per month).

I never got the impression that linking to pirate copies of the article counted, but then found a moderator comment that said it was OK. I don't remember the exact context, but I think it was in a thread where an account that posts a lot of such links did so, someone asked if this was OK, and a moderator said it was.