If you haven't done it recently it's not the nightmare that it was. These days you say you want to cancel, they'll ask you "would you pay $X?", you say no and you're out.

The archive link bypasses the paywall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654027

opening the article link with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) let me read it without the paywall. thought it's in a terminal so goodbye images or css