[bryant]

You're overstressing.

Open the page. Let the article load. Enter reader mode.

Doesn't matter if you weren't fast enough. Once in reader mode, if it rendered the paywall in reader mode, just refresh.

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This at least works on Firefox — reader mode persists through the page refresh. Can't speak for chromium

[esdott]

Yeah I hear you. I’m pretty sure though I’ve come across sites that on a timed refresh have truncated the article. So the whole article was there until some process ran to check sign in status. Maybe that doesn’t happen anymore. I haven’t really noticed.

[eganist]

A timed cut won't matter when you refresh with reader mode enabled before the refresh. None of that logic can execute in reader mode.

That's why it works.