How am I supposed to know beforehand if an article is worth reading? I ran into a lot of articles on HN which are behind a pay wall (I use this extension), but

How am I supposed to know beforehand if an article is worth reading? I ran into a lot of articles on HN which are behind a pay wall (I use this extension), but were not deeply interesting, therefore I left after one or two paragraphs. I can't imagine how much money I would've spent on nothing if I'd pay for every article I click on. Also, I believe the news outlets have a similar problem like video stream providers: too much fragmentation. When I'm forced to subscribe to prime for a specific movie, then to netflix for another movie, then to disney for ANOTHER movie, I'll eventually end up just pirating them all.