Weird. Didn't get one myself.

> paywall

I did not see that.

I saw one ad ("Sign in or register for email updates and this box won’t appear again. We’re grateful for your support.") but could read the entire article after dismissing it.

On subsequent pages I got a couple of similar dialogs but was able to read several articles.

No javascript, no paywall. Just the meat of the article, as web was meant to be. :)