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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by wpietri on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:31AM (#23283731)
Yeah, agreed. I canceled my NYT subscription a while back in protest over some of their editorial misbehavior. It took me weeks to get in canceled and all my money back. Especially frustrating is that they dragged out the process and then charged me for the time that I was trying to unsubscribe. Eventually I just made American Express take the extra $2 back.

I want to resubscribe eventually, as they put out a lot of good journalism. But there is no way in hell I'm doing it until it's as easy to quit as to join.

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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by Fezzik on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:51AM (#23283912)
One sort of workaround is to subscribe through Apple. Then cancelling is as simple as toggling your subscription to Off. As an added bonus, when you subscribe this way, you do not even have to give the NYT any of your contact info - Apple has it set-up so you can use randomized tokens to login. One of the many things I appreciate that Apple does.
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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by dark on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:13PM (#23284109)
Use one of the services that allow you to generate a temporary credit card with set limits. That way you have lot more control.
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