Huh

You know, you’d think a site like the Consumer Reports online subscription page would not have the following features:

1. You can’t just subscribe for a set period. All electronic subscriptions are auto-renewing, which means that each year (or month, if you go that route), your credit card will be automatically dinged until you explicitly opt-out. Given Consumer Union’s support for opt-in on e-mail advertising, it’s kind of disturbing to seem them take this route for subscriptions.
2. When you set a password for your account, the password is not masked. Come on, guys, that’s basic security stuf there.

Vaguely disappointing. I’ll have to drop them a note.