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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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WAPO "gift" articles now require signing up (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What happened if you hit start reading without entering an email?

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It throws a verification error. You also cannot just provide a nonsense email address