I probably shouldn’t tell you that whenever you encounter a paywalled article on the Internet, or a popup that blocks the article from you unless you sign up or disable your adblocker, you can put the URL in archive.is and read it there comfortably, so I won’t.
@vi Firefox l's reader view helped with those kinds of articles most of the time: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages
Firefox Reader View for clutter-free web pages | Firefox Help

Firefox Reader View removes web page clutter to improve readability. Recent Firefox versions can also read pages out loud.