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Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services harder to cancel (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How to cancel 750$/week subscription service in 2069 (easiest method):

  • Pay 69,420$ for cancellation fee
  • Write long 10K word essay
  • Give or your goverment-issued docuemnts as well as your relatives' ID
  • Give your DNA sample
  • Insert Neurolink to read your mind
  • Let our 69,420 partners to track your activity for "personalized ads" (Basicly manipulating you to buy crappy stuff you don't needed)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

European version -

Click

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah, it's at least two clicks - the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking (which won't save that setting and ask again on every page load/click on the page as you might want to be tracked in two minutes) and another one to cancel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only way to save that setting would be with a cookie, so it appears to be working

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Somewhat - some site just don't set a consent cookie if you deny cookies. First, they didn't set Cookies as you requested - second, they can easily ask again on your next page load!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking

that's rarely a single click

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Depends, I'm from Europe and there are many local sites that allow that. You might need to search for a bit (e.g. not a button but a link in some fine print). But yes, there are many sites that just don't have a "decline all" button and that ask you to deny every one of their 937.726.193.372.129 partners (most of them double, as you need to deselect the partner and their "legitimate interests" separately...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wonder when they're gonna do that for Adobe products in Europe. Has to be one of the most scummiest subscription services present day. If you cancel too early you have to pay up a "cancellation" fee for remaining time of the month, or sometimes even more I believe. If you do it too late you'll have to pay for a whole new subscription, and pay for the cancellation fee. I don't even know why they're allowed to pull that shit on consumers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You didn't drink the verification can though... Now you would have to dance (and sing) the next three ads and start again.