Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it?

Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? by Melatonic on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:37PM (#31781574)

I subscribe to a big paper in the city I live in (like, the actual sunday paper delivery). I tried to explain MULTIPLE times to their support people that I did not want all of the extra advertisement crap that came with the paper (pretty standard with any paper - not the small amount of ads/classifieds in the paper itself - all of the extra pamphlets they include)

Their support people could just not even comprehend WHAT I was even talking about - they kept circling back to "pop-up ads" and if I had tried a pop-up blocking extension. It was a never ending circle of confusion :-D

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Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? by paulcole on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:38PM (#31783228)

> I tried to explain MULTIPLE times to their support people that I did not want all of the extra advertisement crap that came with the paper

Is this even an option they offer or just one you wished existed?

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Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? by Melatonic on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:55PM (#31783423)

No idea but I figured I might as well try. I would have been willing to pay a few bucks extra if it was - relatively cheap just for sunday delivery as it is. Mainly thought it was funny they were so confused

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Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? by paulcole on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:16PM (#31783701)

It's not like asking to leave pickles off your burger. I'm kind of amazed that anybody would make this request and think it reasonable but shoot your shot I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? by rabbits77 on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:18PM (#31787006)

Yes, as a former paperboy I can say newspapers (obviously!) don’t have some bespoke assembling process for each customer that would allow for this level of individualization.

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