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No mention of the New York Times, or its practices?

• gruez 3mo ago
  Why should it be mentioned? The article doesn't call out any other specific company by name. Is the Times really that egregious of a offender compared to the other businesses? Does new york city have a history of selectively enforcing laws to favor local businesses?
  • wincy 3mo ago
    If anything, based on Louis Rossman’s experiences it’s quite the opposite - petty bureaucrats do their damndest to ensure it’s as difficult as possible to run a business in New York.
  • cm2012 3mo ago
    New York Times is one of the worst and most famous offenders of making it hard to cancel your subscription. There are companies that make it as hard or spammy but few with the reach of the NYT
  • bell-cot 3mo ago
    I was thinking more of the Times and Guardian being in rather similar lines of work, and the opportunity to cast some shade on a rival.
  • IncreasePosts 3mo ago
    NYT is the biggest brand that I know of that pulls these "easy to subscribe, hard to unsubscribe" antics. Especially galling because if you live in california, you can cancel with just a click, so obviously it is possible, but if you live in 49 other states you are forced to listen to a sales pitch from a human before being allowed to unsubscribe
  • lostlogin 3mo ago
    > Is the Times really that egregious of an offender compared to the other businesses? Yes.