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How to cancel your Chegg subscription
Here's a detailed guide to help you cancel or pause your Chegg subscription
Chegg is a valuable resource for many students, offering a comprehensive suite of digital and physical textbooks, rentals, and online tutoring that you can access through your Kindle e-reader with just a touch. However, if your semester is over or your educational journey has reached a stopping point, it may be time to cancel your subscription. Whatever the reason, here's a detailed guide to help you cancel or pause your Chegg subscription.
How to cancel your Grammarly subscription
Grammarly is a great tool, but other free tools have gotten better
Grammarly is an online editing tool that reviews your spelling, grammar, and usage. It's available on Android, iOS, Windows, Chromebooks, and as an extension on most web browsers.
Telegram Premium: Should you upgrade?
Messaging services and paid subscriptions don’t usually work together, but Telegram has a saving grace
“Telegram is free forever. No ads. No subscription fees.” That’s the assurance Telegram had always given when you opened its mobile app for the first time. But the messaging app walked back its claim in June 2022 when it announced its Telegram Premium tier.
Wyze's new Cam Plus Lite plan raises questions about the future of free services
Jimmy Wales has entered the chat and asked you not to scroll down
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Wyze has come a long way from making "too-good-to-be-true" home security solutions — some moments more unfortunate than others — but the forward path to sustainability means making great subscription services at affordable prices. With that said, the company is now offering a new name-your-own-price subscription tier for Wyze Cam Plus.
Twitter Blue arrives in the US, leaves a lot for Android users to desire
Blessed to be undoing tweets
It's been speculated for many blue moons. Now, after testing the deep blue waters off of Australia and Canada since June, the Twitter Blue subscription service is finally crossing gulfs to New Zealand and the United States with a bevy of new bells and whistles though Android users will be left feeling a little blue with this launch.
Google throws devs a bone and lowers the Play Store's cut of subscription fees across the board
Commissions stand at 15% for all subscriptions
Tensions between app developers and the platforms they serve have never been at a higher pitch with the ongoing disputes Epic Games has with Apple and Google. But these explosive distractions and the government legislation being signed into law in their wake have motivated the sleeping giants into catering for the publishing masses.
Google finally figured out that bundling subscription services is a good idea
There's a Google One + Play Pass discount on the way
As part of Apple's big drive to diversify its revenue streams and make more money from services, the company seemed to quickly realize that bundling together popular content streams would make a lot of sense. It looks as though Google is finally arriving at this party, fashionably late, with an upcoming bundle of its own, although it's only a small step in the right direction.
Microsoft wants to stream Windows to all your screens, including your Android devices
It's like Xbox Cloud Gaming, but without the fun
Cloud-hosted virtual desktops aren't anything new, but Microsoft, as a first party to Windows, hopes to do the competition better with Windows 365. Built on Azure Virtual Desktop, the subscription service will be available to businesses starting next month.
Premium Twitter Blue subscription launch looks imminent
The company appears to have pushed official details a bit early
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Twitter seems to be prepping for the launch of Twitter Blue, a premium package of features including the ability undo certain tweets, organize favorite posts into collections, and utilize its recently acquired Scroll paid newsfeed service, at least for iOS.
Google Play Pass more than doubles the number of countries it's available in
No need to pay for in-app transactions with a ton of apps
Google's Play Pass program, where customers trade a monthly or annual subscription fee for all-you-can-eat downloads, premium features, and in-app perks for certain apps, has expanded to 48 new countries.
Google is now pushing its subscription services on its hardware store
One place to subscribe to them all
Google is an advertising business first and foremost, though over the last few years, the company has introduced many paid services: YouTube Premium, Google One, Fi, and Stadia Pro come to mind, among many others. There's never been a central hub where you could find Google's subscription offers, but that's now a thing of the past: You can see all of the company's paid services in one place on the Google Store.
Get free Chamberlain MyQ Google Assistant integration through May 2022
Lock it in at the right price for two years
Chamberlain's myQ garage door openers can be controlled remotely for free, but if you want to access them with a third-party application like the Google Assistant or IFTTT, that'll cost you a nominal fee. Chamberlain is currently offering a number of such subscriptions free of charge for the next two years — no credit card required.
YouTube makes it easier to catch up on recent or unwatched videos from your favorite channels
New filters clean up your subscription tab
Earlier in 2020, YouTube began testing new filters in the Subscriptions tab of its iOS app to help you sift through the noise of all your followed channels. These filters are now widely rolling out to users on Android.
Play Store app policy changes go after misleading subscriptions, prep for Android 11 location permissions
Protecting your wallet and your privacy
The Play Store has a problem with sleazy apps that overcharge customers for basic functionality via subscriptions. A lot of people often don't even realize that they're signing up for expensive plans due to apps highlighting free trials, conveniently concealing that they automatically turn into paid subscriptions. To combat these frauds, Google will instate new Play Store policies that force developers to disclose exactly how much and what for they're charging starting June 16 while the company will also send out emails warning customers before trials turn into paid subscriptions. The updated policies additionally prepare a change for location permissions in Android 11 — developers have to get approval from Google before they're allowed to access background location.
Google Podcasts web improves with subscriptions, sorting, and more
Still not a fully-featured podcast client, but making progress
Last week, Google Podcasts received a revamp on Android along with a new iPhone app, but one of the changes that we didn't explore affected the web interface. It's still not on par with the mobile client, but at least it now offers subscriptions and sorting.
YouTube gains channel filter in subscriptions, better playback control accessibility (Update: Filters official)
You decide when those controls automatically hide
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We've got a couple of quick new features to run through on the YouTube Android app that will hopefully make sorting your subscriptions out easier as well as help you better control your playback experience. Let's get to it.
The venerable Egon Spangler once said, "print is dead." The statement may have been premature, but today it feels a little more on point because Google has begun the process of retiring its print-replica magazine service. Emails are going out to Google News users with active subscriptions to inform them that full refunds are being processed and there will be no new issues coming.
If you ask any mainstream technology or media company, they'll tell you subscription services are the gold rush of the 21st century. What company wouldn't revel in the steady flow of dollar bills rolling in from a defined user base every single month? A recurring line of income keeps companies alive, after all. Looking to cash in on the subscription craze, HBO is launching its own streaming service, and there's a ton of content on the way.
There are a plethora of Android apps that allow you to download videos and music files from popular websites such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and more. Since doing that isn't exactly legal or sanctioned by Google, these applications live completely outside the Play Store, which means they lack any substantial malware protection. Some apps take advantage of this, and popular third-party downloader Snaptube turns out to be one of those. Security platform Secure-D has found evidence of fraudulent advertisement clicks in the background and unwanted, automatically created subscriptions which the owner of the phone has to pay for.
Disney and Verizon have announced a partnership that will give customers on Verizon's Unlimited plans a free year of Disney+. The upcoming streaming service, which features content from Disney and its ever-expanding list of subsidiaries (Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic), is set to launch on November 12. Eligible Verizon customers will receive one free year of Disney+ — a $70 value.