[benjaminbachman]

I like the New York Times but I was infuriated by the unsubscribe process. I also turned down a super cheap extension.

I am now subscribed via the Google Play store, which means the NYT loses a big chunk of the money, all so I can be guaranteed an easy cancellation button.

[WalterBright]

I didn't have any trouble cancelling the NYT. My credit card number changed, and that was that :-)

[cgriswald]

I had a newspaper send me to collections when I tried that; over a matter of about $18 for newspapers they never delivered because I hadn't paid.

[WalterBright]

The NYT cut me off when the old card got declined, so if they had sent it to a collection agency, I would have disputed it.

[xeromal]

That sounds like tremendous trouble if you have your card on any sites like Amazon.

[WalterBright]

It was indeed a nuisance, but when a fraudulent transaction appeared on my statement, it had to be done. I just found it convenient to not update the card on the NYT.

[silisili]

Virtual cards are great for this. My brother keeps recommending privacy.com, I need to look into it.

[xeromal]

I used virtual cards for decades. PayPal had a Firefox extension that did this in the early aughts.

I used getfinal.com for several years too but they went bankrupt. I don't even try anymore

[lawgimenez]

I can easily cancel from the nytimes.com website by going to my account settings.

[oxfeed65261]

I just now unsubscribed from NYT, in response to this thread. I had to do an online chat, but at least it wasn’t an overly prolonged process. I am quite certain that I did not have an option to unsubscribe from account settings.

I also unsubscribed from The Washington Post. It did have a non-chat-based unsubscribe option, which I greatly appreciated.

I also unsubscribed from The Economist. It was the worst. They went through multiple but-here’s-an-even-better-deal stuff, then tried to subscribe me to email newsletters.

Thanks, HN, for the incentive to do this; I had meant to for some time.

[rootusrootus]

That must be new, maybe in response to some recent FTC opinions that every web site should have a cancelation option that was equivalently easy to the subscribe option. Used to be you could only cancel over the phone.

[kevin_thibedeau]

California address.

[rootusrootus]

Figures. I wonder what it would cost to buy myself a functional California address.

[lawgimenez]

Or international address