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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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[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Archive.ph

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Beside the point. That was never required for gifted articles

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blocked in my country because some asshole archived some csam

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://web.archive.org ?

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 3 months ago

Archive.is and their mirrors use a secret sauce of premium accounts and/or content filter to remove the paywall code before archiving