Khan’s announcement of the now-vacated rule said that too many “businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. The FTC’s rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want.”

Good thing representatives only have to tell their constituents why this is bad. No need to take it all the way to voters.

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      As @[email protected] said, this is about much more than software. You can’t pirate a gym (excluding the Venn Diagram of probably 0.0000001% of people who both want to go to a gym and know how to hack themselves into said gym’s database).

      Click-to-cancel hurts every consumer in America and only benefits the providers of any subscription service.

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      It is not only streaming. I used to have a barkbox subscription for my dog, monthly treats and toys. Well she is allergic to most of the treats, and hardly plays with the toys. I tried to cancel, and thought I did. But it changed me to a different option instead, so again the next month I went to cancel and it still did not cancel. Finally after the 3rd try I managed to cancel. It kept offering me “solutions” to not cancel.

      I admit I should have checked for a confirmation email and made sure I was cancelled.

      Prime does similar and keeps looking like you are cancelled, but you are not.

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        Sailing the high seas solves those problems too. Forego Amazon Prime and just steal your shit from their cargo ships.