• @jeffwOPM
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    01 month ago

    It’s a gift link, so you can read it

    • @breadsmasher
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      Only if I give them my email address. So not entirely free. The cost is giving away personal data, or wasting my time with a throwaway email

      • @jeffwOPM
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        61 month ago

        Interesting… that’s a new thing and a stupid thing. NYT gift articles are still actual gifts

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Then it checks to see if your email is already registered with them. Then you get a popup that says ‘check your email’ and presumably links back to it. This happens for new and existing addresses.

          Unsurprisingly ‘getfucked@google(.)com’ was already taken.

          Firefox with uBO worked fine, that signup element is blocked, and you aren’t prevented from reading the page.

      • @reddig33
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        1 month ago

        If you have a subscription to Apple News, I believe Washington post is included. Open link in browser, then share to Apple News to open it there.

        Sometimes it even lets you read it without a News+ subscription.

        Just a possible workaround, not really an excuse for WP.