Yeah, I had the same reaction. I'm sure the Magazine publishers would love a system where they can use their own payment processor to harvest a ton of details

Yeah, I had the same reaction. I'm sure the Magazine publishers would love a system where they can use their own payment processor to harvest a ton of details from you and that requires you to phone a call-center that mysteriously drops your call 3/4s of the time in order to cancel, but it's a big step backward for me as a consumer.