I believe parent comment was referring to tools to bypass paywalls when they referred to the "normal tricks", like archive.org, archive.is, 12ft.io, manually se

I believe parent comment was referring to tools to bypass paywalls when they referred to the "normal tricks", like archive.org, archive.is, 12ft.io, manually setting a googlebot or other search engine indexer UA, clearing cookies, modifying the HTML of the page locally to remove hidden attributes or scroll locks, etc