They are often easily circumvented, e.g. by using services like archive.vn, or visiting the site with a referrer coming from google search.

"Complaints about paywalls are off topic, so please don't post them." See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

Not all of the browsers I use support browser extensions that could automagically un-paywall.

Would it be ethical / legal for HN to automatically try using un-paywalling services for paywalled articles?

Just disabling cookies, CSS and JS bypasses the paywall.

For certain IPs (probably determined by counting visits per day/week) nytimes and a few others, eg. wsj, seems to not even deliver the full article, instead only giving the first 2 paragraphs so if you don't have JS enabled you just don't get the article. Might be a reason why sites like outline.com have stopped supporting them.

There is a simple fix for WSJ, just append this to the URL: ?mod=djemalertNEWS

I haven't yet seen this with nytimes.

I swear I need a scriptlet for this because this is awesome.

There is also a WebExtension that works with WSJ:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/

Yeap. I never get the article without some magic site.

Reader view almost always bypasses The NY Times paywall

It doesn't work.

More often than not reader view does not work on paywalled articles for me.