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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market? by lostgame on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:28AM (#30672830)
Can't downvote this enough.

I recently cancelled my Toronto Star digital newspaper subscription - some $17/mo or some bullshit like that - because I was horrified to find after paying that frankly ridiculous subscription fee, I was still being fed ads within their iPhone app.

This obviously isn't the only - even recent - case of this.

In no way does a subscription payment mean you will not have advertisements or tracking.

It's infuriating to see time and time again how companies care just so little about the customer and so much about taking advantage of the very people who are paying them. :(

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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market? by technobabbler on Monday March 14, 2022 @11:03AM (#30673255)
Unsubscribe and tell them why they. So much news online. Choose the ones that don't give you shit...
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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market? by lostgame on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:22PM (#30675194)
I had to call them to unsubscribe. You can bet I told them why. They usually try to do everything they can to retain you, but when I said 'unless you remove the ads, you can cancel me now', they proceeded to actually do it.
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