Washington Post notifies subscribers their rates are set to increase, explaining the price rise“was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/t…
The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian
If recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock at the dawn of your latest billing cycle.Kate Corliss (Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.)
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Flaming Cheeto
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Then sue when he balks? I already handed it to him, I can't sell it to anyone else. It's a fair price based on his data.
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Kim Scheinberg
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In fairness, casinos *do* charge based on user data, but usually in the other direction. The richest gamblers (or, rather, the ones who gamble the most money) get everything for free, rather than having their prices hiked
Also, there's a group of extremely wealthy people who meet once a month at the Four Seasons (admission to the group is based on liquid net worth) and their room rate is *much* lower than rack rate
The super rich are rarely victims of predatory pricing
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in reply to Steve Herman • • •I don't like this idea for a national paper, but I have to admit a lower price for out-of-state subscribers of a smaller paper would be appealing. (Of course, that's still not at the *personal* level.)
I wonder what @jeffjarvis thinks?
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@AnnaAnthro The #price of a #subscription should be going down since #Bozo fired so many #journalists.
It’s a lesser product than it was before.
Bozo #Bezos wants to charge more for less? WTF?
Hard pass. I’m going with the #SeattleTimes instead.
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in reply to Steve Herman • • •Quick question for a fishmonger friend of mine: Any special discount on fish wrapping paper?
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in reply to Steve Herman • •Another reason to suspend your subscription.
Who has a subscription to this toilet paper by the way?
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in reply to Steve Herman • • •So, billionaires can charge people according to what they're able to pay for a propaganda newspaper, but the tax code can't do the same to billionaires?
#USPol #TaxTheRich #WaPo #Bezos #IRS #TaxFairness #EatTheRich #TaxTheBillionaires #USFederalBudget
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in reply to Michael ☕️ • • •@mcpinson
What?
My connection was garbled for a minute.
Did you just say something about "From each according to ability, to each according to their need?"
So similar, right? 🙂