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WAPO "gift" articles now require signing up (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by breadsmasher@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It throws a verification error. You also cannot just provide a nonsense email address

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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...

this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024

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