No account is required to read this, did you try?

I opened it with an incognito window, no problem.

I opened it with a logged in window, no problem.

Some authors try to monetize their posts. Not this one.

I'd love to know if your experience was somehow different.

Between deleting cookies and disabling JavaScript, you can have unfettered access to most news sites (and medium)

Using Brave I am somehow able to read it without being blocked. I assume it's blocking cookies/tracking, but that's an option.

I use this extension (works on Chrome and Firefox, maybe Safari too) to bypass paywalls, works great.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

google "github bypass paywall"