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See this previous HN thread for how difficult NYT makes it to cancel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26174269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=261742
by Someone1234 5y ago
See this previous HN thread for how difficult NYT makes it to cancel:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26174269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26174269
This is the kind of dark-pattern/anti-consumer stuff you should expect if you must keep using Wordle-branded Wordle (as opposed to one of their competitors).
- gumby 5y ago…unless you live in California. In some ways this is a minor issue, but it would be best for everyone, including subscription service providers, if this kind of thing were banned by law.
- 18lwoodward 5y ago
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoI use privacy.com (single use/purpose card number generator) for my NYT subscription because of that part.
- jrockway 5y agoThey don't cancel your subscription when your credit card number stops working. They keep charging you, and send the account balance to a collections agency. So hopefully you signed up with a fake name and fake address.
- dymk 5y agoAnd if you did use a fake name and address, you're now committing credit card fraud, so have fun with that.
- ipaddr 5y agoCredit card fraud can be fun.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoDo they keep letting you read the paper too? If not... well, I guess they can ask for whatever they want, but if you took it to court I can’t imagine you’d be on the hook for payment, your contract with NYT has clearly ended. Has this ever actually happened to anyone? I’ve seen it mentioned in several threads and it seems exceedingly implausible...
- jrockway 5y agoIt's happened to me. My credit card expired, I kept reading the Times without noticing that billing was broken, and I got a letter from a collections agency complaining on their behalf.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoSeems like something that's easy to ignore. Collections agencies expect to get back a fraction of the original payments.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoYou could also buy a gift subscription for yourself, since those last a year.
- DoneWithAllThat 5y agoWhat is the relevance of this at all to the topic we’re discussing?
- Ansil849 5y agoThe relevance is that the NYT has a sordid history of user hostile actions, and this is just the latest in a long line of them. In other words, the relevance is in highlighting that this is kind of conduct is part of a pattern, not an aberration. This is relevant, as it helps situate the action.
- woah 5y agoWake up Sheeple!
- gdulli 5y agoIt's outrage culture. The people who don't like a thing use their dislike as a wildcard, making it relevant to every discussion involving that thing.
- spaceisballer 5y agoI for one am outraged, what are we mad at now? Honestly I don’t mind NYT, I ended up getting a sub to their Games and it’s fun enough and better for my sanity then doom scrolling. Also I cancelled auto renew immediately, easy peasy.
- xg15 5y agoIt's likely that Wordle will become part of such a dark pattern in the near future. As stated in the article: The newspaper intends to increase its subscriber count to 10 million by 2025, and its focus on word games is part of its strategy.
- imgabe 5y agoYou don’t need a subscription to play Wordle
- xdfgh1112 5y agoIt was a 2 minute online chat for me. But I disliked how there wasn't just a button to do it, and it put me off using them again.