Most pay walled sites the browser will load the entire text of the article before it loads the pay wall overlay. But to my knowledge there are no browser extensions that take advantage of this to circumvent pay walls. I'm sure the story in this article is hilarious, but I'm not giving the LA times any money.
Does this help
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md
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Just might do the trick. Need to be careful side loading extensions like that though. Make sure the code does what it says it does and nothing else.