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There are really two different types of paywalls. The lazy version just hides the content using JavaScript but the site still serves it, so it can be displayed with a browser extension. Or the site gives you "n free articles" so an extension can just reset the counter. This has become less common over time.
Services like Substack use a more advanced version, that only serve the paywalled content to authenticated users. To get around that, you generally need:
Someone with a paid account willing to scrape the content (or allow their creds to be used to scrape it).
A site willing to host the content that won't fold after the first DMCA request.
I'm not aware of a Substack service for this, but archive.today does it for major news publications that are paywalled, and there's a fairly well known one for Patreon called kemono dot cr where people can upload paywalled content, or provide their Patreon auth token to enable it to be scraped automatically.
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