I just stopped paying them, my card expired, and I didn't give them an updated one. It's a shame, I was going to reinstate my subscription (because I love their paper!) But don't want to support this.
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Normal? What other business does that? I can’t think of one.
If you don’t use Amazon Prime during the trial period (or over the year if you sign up for a year) Amazon auto refund you.
They choose to offer refunds but also to bury the unsubscribe button behind 5+ screens with misleading text and reminders of what you'll "lose".
Rather than good customer service, Amazon try to be generous on the visible aspects that people might talk about, but quietly cheat you with antipatterns.
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Journalists are pretty honest about what they do if you listen to them talk candidly about their profession. It's not really about reporting reality or facts it's more they see themselves are a class above the regular people who have a moral obligation to make sure we think and believe the right things we're supposed to for what they consider the greater good. Not saying if that's the right thing to do or not but per…
This generalization seems overly broad.
Perhaps. ...but among the journalists I know socially (this is a worthless anecdote), they agree that they have a responsibility to report a "socially responsible narrative".
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#745Protip: Change your payment method to Paypal. Then cancel the subscription from paypal.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#746At least you could do it over chat. WSJ requires you to call with long hold times. The only reason, of course, is to make it as difficult as possible and ensure they read you all of the "are you sure?" scripts.
I would love to subscribe to the WSJ, but I cannot justify the cost at the moment.
Here is a free workaround for many periodicals. Get a library card. Access ProQuest through the library's website and find the RSS feed for the newspapers you like. Plug it into an RSS reader and get a daily feed of all news stories.
It is not as good as a digital subscription. No images or interactive features. But it is pretty good for $0.
Similarly, most popular magazines are available with a library card through apps like Libby.
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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).
I wish you saw more absurd situations like this in cyberpunk stories. This mixture of trying to help the consumer to boost your image and sabotaging your own consumer-friendly process to drive up revenue is what late-stage capitalism is all about.
Its not ‘late stage capitalism’, its two uncoordinated groups in the same organization. Capitalism not required.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#748FT and WSJ are both worse than NYT in this respect -- they require a phone call at a specific period of time and there is a waiting time. I'm not going to subscribe to FT and WSJ ever again. If I really need to read them, Bypass Paywalls does the job. I much prefer Guardian/Bellingcat/Wikipedia's model, which is based on donations. I donate regularly to all three.
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I'm an outsider to US politics (in that I'm Australian), but I'm really interested to know what widely held "left" views you think are "incorrect"? The topics I understand as being pushed by the left in the US just seem so centerist to me, based on the political landscape that I'm living in. Single payer health care, minimum wage increases, increases in social support nets... So many topics I'd love to hear the argum…
Also not an American, but the US left has a lot of controversial views that are nothing to do with the things you've listed. Surely you've heard of some?
Maybe I shouldn't have given any examples. Clearly I'm not aware of the problematic topics. Can you share some?
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I'm an outsider to US politics (in that I'm Australian), but I'm really interested to know what widely held "left" views you think are "incorrect"? The topics I understand as being pushed by the left in the US just seem so centerist to me, based on the political landscape that I'm living in. Single payer health care, minimum wage increases, increases in social support nets... So many topics I'd love to hear the argum…
What do you mean by incorrect? Because you're asking us to prove/argue that Left policies are incorrect. By correct/incorrect do you mean: Moral/Immoral? Right/Wrong? Fair/Unfair? If we can agree on judging policies, platforms, ideologies and beliefs on a shared set of criteria, then we can move forward, otherwise we're just shouting at each-other. You can tell me all day long that it's fair for me to get my stuff ta…
The comment I responded to said:
> in my opinion it's artificially solidified their confidence on how "correct" they feel they are about political topics.
I was wondering what topics these were.