I wouldn't even dream of doing this myself, but my friend is using the RefControl Firefox extension which lets you set a Referer header per domain name, and he

I wouldn't even dream of doing this myself, but my friend is using the RefControl Firefox extension which lets you set a Referer header per domain name, and he has set ft.com to send http://plus.google.com http://plus.google.com as referer. This simply disables the paywall. He says that it works on many other sites as well.