I use Zinio because it offers products I want, but as far as the company itself goes, I consider them nothing short of crooks. Now, years later, my filters keep my happily oblivious to whether or not this practice still exist. That lead me to remove all credit card information from Zinio, move to PayPal payment, use a filtered email for my account there, and basically denying them the satisfaction of being one of the worst privacy offenders of any service I have seen. What’s worse though is that Zinio actually denied that they were the cause of this, which is just amazing when customers sit there with spam emails that even has Zinio’s name in them, all the while Zinio denies their existence. As a result, my Gmail archive still has emails from the likes of the Smithsonian Magazine, a magazine I have absolutely no interest in yet were able to get my email address by having Zinio promote it with a free issue. Then they started shoving free magazines down your throat by simply pushing magazines you likely had no interest in to your library, and to top off the privacy failure, these magazines got the same email access as the ones you actually paid for. Some years ago, they started a practice where magazines you subscribe to were able to get your email address and send you “information”, without the “no thanks” options working very well. I’ve been a user for many years, since long before there were the kind of tablets we have today. Android however doesn’t have this, but it still has Zinio, allowing you to buy magazines for your not-an-iPad. Since then, the iPad has gotten many new features that affect magazine reading on it, especially the forced in-app purchase system and the Newsstand store in iOS 5 that basically makes Zinio a bit outdated on the device. Almost exactly one year ago I reviewed Zinio for the iPad.
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