I'm surprised a person was needed to cancel, but with that in mind, this just seems very standard
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#622I just cancelled and it was relatively painless, to their credit. When they asked the reason, I said that political coverage was unfair. Left is OK, unfair is not. I don't consider myself "on the left" but I really don't mind a publication being left of center or right of center. If it's good, I will pay for it (I subscribed tp The Atlantic at least twice, and the New Yorker once, and probably others in a mix of prin…
> I don't consider myself "on the left" but I really don't mind a publication being left of center or right of center.
As someone who is slightly left of center, it's kind of a painful place to be.
You tend to get attacked by both sides.
Personally I've just kind of checked out. I'm not sure there's actually anything relevant that gets said on these newspapers/media that you can't get from just being in online communities, and you'd have to sift through all the shit.
For example, sometimes I'll come across a Tucker Carlson video on youtube and about 80% of what he says is just biased bullshit, but he will make good points sometimes. It honestly makes me miss Jon Stewart. At least we had a means of laughing at them, now they take themselves so seriously.
And the hard on for Joe Biden makes no sense to me either, he's a sleezeball and how people can't be angry at the democratic party for putting up two horrible people in a row I'll never know.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#623Earlier quoted context omitted.
The quote "It's harder to spot/acknowledge for people on the left" sounds to me like patronizing "I'm simply right, whereas you are fooled by your media". It shows a strong assumption that while that commenter is able to see the difference between bias and misinformation, the left cannot. And I don't buy it. Neither people who watch Fox News nor people who watch NBC News buy it hook line and sinker. So considering th…
Although my side (the left) often says things like “reality has a left leaning bias” And it’s totally true when you’re countering the real charlatans of the right like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz (to focus on American politics) But not a valid blanket statement whatsoever.
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Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#624Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was already debunked, but thanks for being an example of people believing whatever narrative the media pushes.
I've seen, with my own eyes, plenty of his tweets and videos of him saying it was a hoax, so debunk it for me.
You think you've seen videos and tweets. But you really haven't. There was one incident that came close: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#625Telcos in Germany also use some shady tactics (just one of many examples, my in-laws were paying 5€/month for an otherwise free AOL email subscription). The one thing that really works over there is threatening to bring in a lawyer, they usually can’t get their in-house counsel to look at some small subscription where they are probably at fault anyway.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. I cancelled Netflix account 7 months ago and haven't used it since. A few days ago I received "Action needed: Reset your password" due to allegedly "suspicious sign-in". After changing the password and looking into the Recent activity, I couldn't see any suspicious recent login there. So I contacted the support and they said cancelled accounts are deleted after 10 months since cancellation. So now, with…
It sounds like there are two departments in Netflix working against each other. One is trying to make sure that customers have a positive experience (not paying for a service they don't use) and the other trying to retain revenue by any means necessary (sending fake security warnings to artificially trigger activity on an account).
>One is trying to make sure that customers have a positive experience
...and the other is the Netflix Specials department.
EDIT: Addendum so not to be too shitposty.
I think Netflix came to Denmark around 2013 or so, and the content at the time was pretty good. Now you have to wade through a swamp of third rate trash and maybe you're lucky to find something that isn't absolute garbage. My account will remain canceled.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#627This is the only reason I’m not a subscriber. I have no interest in starting an open ended subscription that I have to fight to cancel. Shame too because I love the NYT, but I’m mostly able to scratch that itch with the economist, my local paper, and some smaller news outlets.
You can subscribe through Apple/Google and cancellation will be a few clicks away.
Oh! I didn't know that. Looks like you give up the introductory offer, but the price is actually a bit better ($17/mo vs $17 every 4 weeks) and I'm perfectly fine with that.
Thanks for the tip!
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#628If you're in California NYT is violating state law: https://www.cnet.com/news/companies-must-let-customers-cance... The law applies to all companies and publishers with paying customers in the state.
This conversation happened online, so I'm not sure this is technically against the law.
Hmm... looks CA needs to amend the law. They should specify that customers should be able to cancel online without interacting with a human.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#629Earlier quoted context omitted.
NYT is quite right of center on many issues. They're not as conservative as WSJ, but they're definitely not a leftist publication.
Looking at the USA from European eyes, there are no leftist publications, nor any left mainstream politicians there!
It simply means something different in the US vs Europe.
In the US, "left" tends to be centered around social and cultural issues, such as racism, sexism, immigrant rights, abortion rights, affirmative action, or increasingly things like white privilege - what is sometimes derisively called identity politics.
In Europe, "left" tends to be centered around the economic sense of the term, that is, socialism, communism, redistribution of wealth, social safety nets, etc.
By US standards, many European politicians are on the far right because of their social and cultural views. By European standards, most US politicians are on the right or even far right because of their economic views, whereas they're to a European perspective absolutely extreme on the social politics scale.
In general, while they're handy for bandying about in a very general sense, I don't think political axes between countries can be compared in a very meaningful way. There are all kinds of bizarre mismatches even in the same domains - for example, the VAT would be considered a very regressive tax favored only by the more extreme libertarian-conservative types in the US, but it's hardly seen that way in Europe.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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