More work but you can open devtools and delete the "pop over" div that blocks the page, and then set "overflow: scroll" on the second div after <div id="app"> :)

It seems to work with javascript disabled.

Most paywalls are defeated by disabling cookies or javascript, or both. Cookies is enough for the economist.

On Firefox you can reopen it in container.

Why does that help?

because container creates separate env so that site doesn't recognize you as previous visitor.

In FF just toggle the reader view and refresh. That worked for me.