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by dillondoyle 1686 days ago
Is the WaPo subscription full or is it more like Apple News where you only get access to a couple headline articles and have to pay even more beyond news+ for full access?

just looked it shows me $5.99 a month for wapo add on.

If so might be worth it for me even though I don't use twitter. The rest I think are mostly available on news+

Full bloomberg on apple news is $34.99 a month, though they do have more free articles than WaPo it seems and at least I can understand the value and niche of financial news not really worth reading about unless you're in finance.

I don't think NyTimes is even an option anymore. They make enough profit on their walled garden seems they won't ever participate in this stuff again.

The Apple News subscription I already pay for seems to be more for magazines. It used to have everything.

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Yes, news backed off from Apple News because they want to track users more than Apple News allows, basically.

Plus they want to be more in control what gets shown.

If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get a full WaPo subscription for $3.99/month.

It works great for me on my Mac, less so on my iPad when following links in Twitter. The Twitter browser view doesn't seem able to handle logging into Amazon, then reporting success to WaPo so I can read the article. I think it works OK if I remember to open the link in Safari.