No pay/email wall:
Would be nice to be able to actually read this article
It’s a gift link, so you can read it
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
Interesting… that’s a new thing and a stupid thing. NYT gift articles are still actual gifts
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.
Just the WaPo trying its best to destroy itself as of late…
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.
