The request nobody made
Up to this writing, this site charged for an article on a GET. A browser makes that kind of request whenever it likes. Moving the charge to a POST closed a hole. The same move also removed the longest silent wait on the site.
The rest is metered
Reading on costs 0.01 DEMO an article, drawn from a fund you control, under a limit and an expiry you set yourself.
Open this in your wallet on a phone, or scan the code with the phone's wallet. It asks for one transaction, and shows you what it does before you approve it.
When the wallet says it is done,
Continue takes you back to the article you came from.