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Tips for Canceling Online Subscriptions

It’s easy to sign up but not always so easy to stop a service. The F.T.C. is proposing rules to change that.


I read that article so you don't have to, and my suspicions were fully borne out - not only did they fail to mention that the NYTimes won't let you cancel a digital subscription without calling them (and you really gotta click around to figure that out as well!), but they also didn't enable comments.

Date: 2023-07-11 06:47 pm (UTC)
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Do you live in California? CA has mandated online unsubscription. So if you want to unsubscribe from any recalcitrant paper, load up your VPN, point it to California, and suddenly voilà! Options to unsubscribe online materialize out of thin air! However I suspect that if you're not in California, simply subjecting yourself to a chatbot's attempts at retaining your subscription is enough for them...

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