Use Firefox then prepend `about:reader?url=` to the link
works great
I just read the article, while NoScript was blocking both the NYT's JS and the google tag manager JS (I set this one in NoScript to "block everywhere, always").
No problems reading the article. What issues did you see?
If you're using Firefox, there's an add-on called |Disable JavaScript that allows you to just click a switch on the toolbar to turn js on and off.
you can disable it in the developer console. its mildly inconvenient but works fine