Yes. Try this bookmarklet called Readium (https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/).

It works great for NYTimes, Medium, Bloomberg.

Some more info about this - On Medium, it only works on urls with 'medium.com' in them. Won't work on other custom Medium domains (like betterprogramming.pub) because of a CORS related issue. It works by fooling the site by making a fetch() call to the current url without sending cookies to the site.

Usually I read the NYT with JavaScript disabled, but while that does display the text, it doesn't show the illustrations and fonts...

If you want a more manual solution you can get the Chrome extension Stylebot [1] and add this custom style for nytimes.com:

    #app > div > div {
        position: unset;
        overflow: visible;
        height: unset;
        width: unset; 
    }
    #app > div > div > div:last-child {
        display: none;
    }

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

Turn off javascript. There are extensions that make a clickable toggle for JS.

Prepend https://archive.is/ to the URL.

If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's something for Chromium browsers too.