edit: After checking the repo it appears that this is not a a new extension, nor has there been any recent update.
Seems like a new extension for this pops up every few months until the content publishers get savvy to the latest workaround and someone else finds a new method.
Originally these would just set the referrer to a search engine regardless of where the link came from and the paywall would go away, I'm not sure how exactly they fixed that but I believe that eventually stopped working.
Seems to be a bit of a cat and mouse game at this point.
Seems like a new extension for this pops up every few months until the content publishers get savvy to the latest workaround and someone else finds a new method.
Originally these would just set the referrer to a search engine regardless of where the link came from and the paywall would go away, I'm not sure how exactly they fixed that but I believe that eventually stopped working.
Seems to be a bit of a cat and mouse game at this point.