Works fine here with no email, no login - not a subscriber.

When I click to read it redirects me to subscribe.washingtonpost.com. Probably because I've read to many WaPo articles recently... Opening the link in incognito mode works.

If you hit the 'stop loading' button early enough, the stuff you're talking about doesn't have a chance to load.

It's slow enough to do this because web pages load enough crap to run a Quake game.

Thanks, that worked. You're right, it's surprisingly slow.