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WAPO "gift" articles now require signing up
(lemmy.world)
Gift articles previously were accessible just with the link. The latest article I attempted to read now requires me to first sign up
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The article in question https://wapo.st/4fp62oH
I am well aware of many work arounds. The point of this post was to show wapo has changed the way gift articles work, which previously didn’t require a workaround
What happened if you hit start reading without entering an email?
It throws a verification error. You also cannot just provide a nonsense email address
You can't provide any email address, by the looks of it. Even a Gmail address (which I assume would be most likely to be whitelisted) fails. Guess that's one way to force subscriptions...