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WSJ makes it easy to subscribe (online), but hard to unsubscribe (2018)

24 pointsby thazeworkover 5 years ago

4 comments

rchaudover 5 years ago
Pretty much every newspaper does this. Bloomberg Businessweek and the Globe and Mail do this as well. California has laws allowing you to cancel online. The rest of the US and Canada are not so fortunate.
Munamover 5 years ago
I bought the URL BadSubscriptions.com because I came across the story of subscriptions&#x2F;services that are hard to unsubscribe from over and over again. I haven&#x27;t built anything that works yet, but what features&#x2F;suggestions would you all have for a service that unsubscribes for you. How valuable is that to you?<p>I&#x27;m mocking up workflows with various API&#x27;s right now but nothing is concrete so I&#x27;d love and welcome any and all suggestions.
ectosphenoover 5 years ago
A year ago I checked the websites for all of my subscriptions. I unsubscribed from any site that made it difficult. Was on principal.<p>It was unfortunate this included the ACLU.
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abductee_hgover 5 years ago
hmm, sounds like &quot;dark Patterns&quot; to me, as described here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M</a> and here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darkpatterns.org&#x2F;types-of-dark-pattern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darkpatterns.org&#x2F;types-of-dark-pattern</a>