‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for publishers’ subscriptions

July 2, 2026

‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for publishers’ subscriptions

Google threatens to cut publishers out of new AI partnerships, New York Times amends lawsuit against OpenAI, and more. WTF is “surveillance pricing”? Publishers may advertise a single subscription price on their websites, but in practice subscribers pay a range of prices due to promotional, introductory and retention discounts. Now some of the tactics behind

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Published by digiday.com