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Have no axe to grind here.

I just don’t understand why unsubscribing from a service merits a blog post, and even more confusing, an upvote to the popular category of Hacker News.

There are thousands of individuals enrolling and de-enrolling from hundreds of services every day. If they all posted blogs, we’d drown in them.

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This is a world where giving money to a company is an inherently political act, even if you do not know it to be. Each dollar spent at Amazon is a tacit endorsement of its business, labor, and greater economic practices, and for one to detail why they choose to stop supporting a business is to enumerate the practices and side-effects of that business's existence that they find problematic or harmful.

This is meant to spark discussion of the thought process behind consciously decoupling from a specific product, not to look for kudos or get patted on the back.

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