Worth noting that at least in the United States, your public library likely provides free access to some paywalled / subscription sites. Mine has NYT, WSJ, Consumer Reports and a bunch of others.
Typically, you log in to your library web site, they will give you a magic link to the paywalled web site which then gives you a 'subscription' that is good for the day.
This used to be a good option for me (in Silicon Valley), but when I last checked this option was much less attractive. Previously you could sign up for a 1-year pass; now it's something like a week.
They definitely don't make it super convenient. With NYT I have to jump through the same hoop every day, with WSJ about once a week. On the plus side, it helps make the decision to read an article (or the news at all) more deliberate.
It’s usually a limited number of passes, so when customer k+1 requests access, customer 1 gets dropped. I don’t tell anyone about my library’s resources—they’re great, and so are the ones 2 counties up ;)
