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lol I had a similar problem, but I just wasnt an a-hole and they blocked New York Times from charging my account with no waiting and no questions.

The difference is, I told them I had signed up for it, but was unable to cancel due to NYT's policies on canceling accounts.

Maybe next time be truthful. You don't accidentally buy subscriptions because it's full of ad's. You signed up for the sub. or a trial with a delayed payment and forgot.

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I don't remember signing up for it. Not out of the question that someone in my family did with my devices. There needs to be an option "5. Some crappy dark pattern subscription that I don't want". It would be very easy to build some type of subscription service that autopauses if you don't use it for a month(s). I did not log in to WaPo and so shouldn't have been getting charged. Let's keep the pressure on the businesses to discourage dark patterns and not nitpick on the consumer because I didn't adequately respond to a set of options that left out a critical and common category of disputes.

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