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A comment on The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers.

Re:The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers by tedunangst on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:12PM (#20580613)
No fucking kidding. I subscribed, and then they sent me email newsletters all the time. Unsubscribe; they invent a new one the next week. Cancel, cancel, cancel, never resubscribe, tell everyone I know to never subscribe.
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Re:The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers by pandaman on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:27PM (#20585390)
~10 years ago it was worse. They would just subscribe you themselves to the actual newspaper and then bill you. If you lived in a multi-unit building you wouldn't even know you had been receiving LAT for several months before the bill came!

This is literally a scam and would be bad for any business but 10x worse for a newspaper. "Hey, would you like to get your news from scammers like us?"

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