I was once a loyal subscriber to car & driver magazine for many years. then i wanted to take a few years off. At that point I started get highly deceptive and

I was once a loyal subscriber to car & driver magazine for many years. then i wanted to take a few years off. At that point I started get highly deceptive and aggressive retention ads from that company: "your subscription has expired", "your bill is overdue", etc, etc. they try to make you believe that you accepted another year of subscription when you really have not. So, never again. And why won't they let me pay for news the way I want? I'd much rather pay on a per article measure rather than a subscription. As a consumer, there's nothing I hate more than a subscription plan. If anything I'm trying to get rid of subscriptions in my life, not get more of them. Then there's the quality of most news sites. There's a reason why people on hacker news immediately read the comments before reading a news article: it's because the average writing and synthesis of thought is much better on hacker news commentators than the average news site.