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
Gifting someone a news article feels so dystopian
I have some issues with WaPo’s reporting at times, but honestly, how do we expect to fund quality journalism if we never pay for news?
Publicly funded news corporations with journalistic freedom would be nice
I don’t disagree, but ideally quality journalism should be treated as a public good, as it’s, well, a source of information about the world, an extention of education, you could say
A lot of European countries have tax-supported independent news organizations
This article is reposted. Or mirrored or whatever.
I’d rather fund quality original news none-for-profit. But all major news articles are in it for the money. How do you expect me to pay for something that has a vested interest in making money off the stuff they report?
We just read free fearmongering content on right wing extremist websites instead, duh
The right answer is through memes and 4chan
As much as I hate them, ads. The same newspapers have always made money. Along with the Wikipedia route of asking for donations
Summary: No longer gifts.
yea… that ain’t gonna happen. ever.
i will just paste your headline into a web search and find another source (often the same exact article).
Beside the point. That was never required for gifted articles
Blocked in my country because some asshole archived some csam
Archive.is and their mirrors use a secret sauce of premium accounts and/or content filter to remove the paywall code before archiving
*grift articles
Pro tip: the login wall is added at the end of page load. If you tap the Esc key at the right moment to interrupt the load, you’ll end up with the full article rendered without the bullshit
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…
