Or simply turn off JavaScript.

That's what it is! for months I had a trick for getting around paywalls and I just realized that that's all I'm really doing... You learn new things every day, especially when starting out...

You should check out https://noscript.net/

Thanks! I was basically inspecting the page and reloading with 'pause on caught and uncaught exceptions' but I think that all that did was pause some Javascript before it ran.