There are often ways to access content without creating an account at all. Just look around a little bit. A current example is this post here: Welcome to the Virusphere. You are prompted to create an account to access the content like seen in the screenshot below:
When you look at the comments to this post at Hacker News, you will find someone who created a snapshot of the content via: https://archive.is/VbTDd. See the screenshot below:
So
no account needed