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by bratsche 881 days ago
They're also difficult to cancel. They gave me a student discount for using my .edu email address, but after awhile I realized I wasn't really using it so I tried to cancel. They work really hard to make that difficult to do.
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Not sure if it's still the case but it used to be that if you changed your address to California you could cancel online since IIRC it's a law there.

I have this memory of having to do that to get rid of the wsj after I made the fatal mistake of forgetting to cancel after a trial.

When I need to cancel something that is hard to cancel, I get a free virtual card from Privacy (privacy.com), then switch my subscription to use the virtual card number, then pause or cancel the card in Privacy.
Then you have the risk of the vendor sending your account to collections and trashing your credit score.
I've done the same thing for years. I've never seen collections.