The old tricks are becoming less reliable because the magazines, recognizing that those methods undermine their money making, switched from "paywall" to "members only".

Back in the day, a paywall was nothing more that a "thing" that was displayed between you and the paywalled content. The content was still there, you just had to pay to literally remove the wall between you and it. "The old tricks" mainly work by detecting what is content and what is wall and removing the wall so that you can see the content.

Nowadays though, many sited don´t even load the paywalled content in unless you are logged into your subscription account. And what content isn´t loaded in the first place also can´t be magically made to appear from behind the wall. It´s not so much like the content is behind a wall, it´s more like you leave the original building all together, get blindfolded and driven to a secret location and only there will the actually bring out the content.