I had to try this and you appear to be correct.

Its kinda bizare i get a captcha which i cant enter without javascript but in firefox i dont get any captcha at all.

However i don’t think your solution is adequate. I don’t particularly care about this story i care about having to face a paywall every 3 times i click a link on lemmy.

Kinda sucks there are not more sites like it but i did successfully test this compromise: https://web.archive.org/web/20250226151151/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html