this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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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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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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[–] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

It's like back in the day gifting rout bought newspaper copy to someone else to read