I have one. You get like 6mo free if you sign up with a Prime account and only $4/mo after that. I read more than a handful of great articles from them each month and that price seems fair.

No subscription is needed to read the article. (However, the link is broken and leads to a page with no actual article; several people have commented with corrected URLs.)

Yes. It's well worth it, both to receive the content hassle-free and to support their mission.

It really is frustrating. I know it doesn't help the WaPo, but I subscribe to the NYTimes and the Economist and my wife's got a couple of other subs in there somewhere, but instead every site wants their $10-$20. Micropayments now!

I canceled mine because they use outbrain but it hasn't expired yet.

What's out brain and what's wrong with it?

Outbrain is the source of the "from around the web" advertising links at the bottom of news articles. They're generally just ads for diet pills and the like, disguised as other news stories.

Other similar vendors of the same kind of service are Taboola and Lockerdome.

Outbrain is one of the ad companies that creates the ads that blend in with the article recommendations that appear at the bottom of the article. They often use misleading photo/headline combinations. It really undercuts the credibility of the organizations that use it and contributes to an a culture of distrust towards the media.

Examples: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QIgVE16uYImcKIy92

Reader mode in Safari on iOS and mac lets you see the content without any issues.

I was able to view for free. I'm on mobile if that helps.

Students also get digital access to WashPo for free.

Washington Post is some of the best investigative journalism going on right now at a mainstream media level.

NYT is just a rag in comparison.