{"id":6180,"date":"2004-04-30T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/30\/huh-4.html"},"modified":"2004-04-30T07:13:55","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:13:55","slug":"huh_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/huh_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Huh"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, you’d think a site like the Consumer Reports online <\/a>subscription page would not <\/i>have the following features:<\/p>\n

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  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 <\/i>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.\n
  2. When you set a password for your account, the password is not masked. Come on, guys, that’s basic security stuf there.<\/ol>\n

    Vaguely disappointing. I’ll have to drop them a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You know, you’d think a site like the Consumer Reports online subscription page would not have the following features: You can’t just subscribe for a set period. All electronic subscriptions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30124,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/amazon-offers-serial-novels-for-the-kindle.html","url_meta":{"origin":6180,"position":0},"title":"Amazon offers Serial Novels for the Kindle","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Sep-12 4:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting idea -- and something that e-readers particularly allow for.Though what I'd been hoping for was a way to subscribe to novel series automatically ... 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