Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
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More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    39·
    8 days ago

    We don’t all live in mom’s basement playing [insert game] on a crusty Toshiba satellite here with every whim catered to.

    Things break, things are needed, people live their lives. I don’t buy much, but when I need something there are rarely any alternatives to Amazon.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      52·
      8 days ago

      Sure buddy, if that makes you feel better.

      Thats just not true anywhere in europe. If you live in NA, then my condolences. Idk how it is in south america but probably depends on the country.

      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        13·
        7 days ago

        Things don’t break in Europe??? Are you insane? In the UK most people buy all their stuff from fucking Temu, it’s literally top 10 free apps on Google Play here always, it’s much worse than even Amazon.

        I’m anti-consumptuon as they come, I don’t have any subscriptions, most things I own are either 2nd hand, upcycled (repurposed), fixed by me, but you are either a sheltered baby or utterly out of touch with reality if you think it’s possible to avoid using Amazon here entirely, especially in Europe if anything, at least in the US they have some competition to Amazon but here? Nah.

        • EnderMB@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days ago

          Argos has a huge amount of stuff, is often as cheap as Amazon, and can handle same-day pickup and delivery. Saying that it doesn’t exist in the UK is definitely bullshit, especially when we are a tiny fucking island that has handled next day delivery at scale for DECADES.

      • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        8 days ago

        I’m in the USA and it’s totally easy not to use Amazon. The first step is buying less shit though and people are pretty addicted to buying crap they don’t need.