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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What happened if you hit start reading without entering an email?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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...