Re: Other solution
it is rare that they have anything unique.
Disagree here: The Washington Post, along with The New York Times, is one of the places, where most other news outlets copy their U.S-related news from. So you get it first by reading WP. As for cookies, that fight was lost long ago, and efforts to fight them have just caused each site to have the annoying cookie acceptance pop-up that most people click anyway without thinking. A total waste of time. GDPR did not change anything in practice.