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> Get unlimited access + a free YubiKey. Subscribe

What's this?

> Subscribe today to get unlimited access to WIRED and get a free, exclusive WIRED YubiKey 4.

> 1 year for $10

Can I get like 300 subscriptions to Wired?

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$5 my dude: https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/116304

I subscribed about two months ago after seeing this on /r/sysadmin. I got my first issue, but I still haven't got my Yubikey :(

I have a feeling that they might be waiting on a huge order of the branded Yubikeys to arrive.

Reading the fine print on their site it says offer only valid in the U.S. and would be delivered with in 4 weeks. Are you a U.S. resident or could that be an issue? Hope you get it

There's an international form and the deal still applies! It's just $10 instead of 5

(scratch that, they make it $20 CAD after everything...)

https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired

International shipping bumps this up to 40 USD, which is a ridiculous shipping fee for a letter.

"You will receive your exclusive YubiKey within 4 weeks after being charged. Offer valid in U.S. only." :(

That’s odd. My invoice shows that I get one here in Canada and says 6-8 weeks both on the confirmation screen and the email copy.

I’ve been reading Wired articles for years for free so I don’t mind signing up for a year regardless.

I guess I’ll find out and can report back for anybody who wants to know for sure haha.

Support says "The yubikey is also sent outside the US. Yours was ordered September 19 and should take 6-8 weeks to arrive", so I guess the notice on the page isn't correct. Yay!

I just subscribed because of this!

And yeah probably. Per my post-subscription notice:

6-8 weeks

It looks really shady. They never tell you how much shipping costs on their web site (to Europe), and then you're taken to Paypal where it clearly shows "10 dollars" (nothing else) and a blue "Pay" button.

After clicking "Pay" you're getting an email that 40 dollars have been sent to Condé Nast.

That borders on fraud. Let's see what customer support has to say about it.

You can buy it as a gift... to 300 of your close friends who are incidentally named like you and live in your house.

Always wondered how magazines could afford to pay for this?

I remember a reprint of a MAD Magazine issue from the 1960s or 1970s that was making fun of magazines' extravagant promotions to boost their circulation. The cartoon showed a magazine publisher personally visiting a non-renewing subscriber and offering him a serious of inducements to renew, culminating in the offer of the publisher's daughter's hand in marriage if the subscriber would agree to continue his subscription for another year.

In the punchline, the publisher said something to the effect of "and that's how we keep our subscription figures climbing!".

The auto-renewal. Most people will forget about the renewal, then renew after a year at full rates.

Isn't the easy solution to this to immediately cancel auto renewal right after subscribing?

Ad revenue. You are the product not the customer, same in print as online ;)

It's a U2F key, not a Y4.

Definitely looks like a Y4 https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired

More significantly, it claims to be one.

Wait, whoah, they're giving away Y4s? I thought (clearly) they were U2F keys. Well, I guess I was wrong.

I thought the same, but according to Yubico themselves[0], it’s a Yubikey 4 with some branding. Unless that was a previous campaign?

[0] https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-ch...

^^ this is wrong

Wow for $10 I can get a printed edition shipped internationally for one year and the key... that's.... something. Probably first time I will subscribe to an online magazine.

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