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Re: New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

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Post by nashashmi » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #343

nixon_why69 wrote: post #308

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They commented upthread that they actually enabled it for the two states that legally require it.

That was harder than enabling it for all states. They went out of their way to ensure that users from 48 states could not cancel.

Actually they went out of their way to make sure someone in California could cancel (a lot of work) online. They only restricted use of the feature to a subset

Re: New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

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Post by returningfory2 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 5:18 PM UTC

ciabattabread wrote: post #323

returningfory2 wrote: post #178

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This information about the NYT is out of date; it's now easy to unsubscribe from anywhere.

And that is courtesy of recent New York State law. [1] [1] https://kr.law/news/article-detail/new-yorks-new-automatic-r...

Nice!

Re: New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

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Post by preg_match » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

Jblx2 wrote: post #157

nemomarx wrote: post #41

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Which is a fair discount, but it should be like "15 a month, 120 if you get a year up front" right?

$15/month * 12 months = $180 $12/month * 12 months = $144 $120 / 12 months = $10/month

Right but the 10/month price is actually unreachable, I can't pay 10 dollars every single month. Which is generally what that language means to consumer. When we say "10 dollars per month" that parses as "10 dollars paid each month" NOT "10 dollars per month of service". I understand that's strange, but that's how I would say almost all consumers read it.