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US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

(arstechnica.com)
574 points gausswho | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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postalrat ◴[09 Jul 25 04:10 UTC] No.44506272[source]▶
I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel.

If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

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wobfan ◴[09 Jul 25 04:42 UTC] No.44506400[source]▶
Not gonna lie, I actually have canceled many service because of this single reason. If I get the feeling they want to hide these options specifically to keep me in a subscription, I immediately feel the urge to cancel even more, and also it gives me the feeling that the service itself is obviously, objectively, not good enough that they can just be honest and offer a easy cancel option - because they fear that too many people would.
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tonyhart7 ◴[09 Jul 25 08:53 UTC] No.44507710[source]▶
You are absolute minority that conscious about your financial but sorry to tell you that "most" people is "forgot" they sign up something and not open it in years

that's happen more often than you think

also financial illiterate is real

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1. gmd63 ◴[09 Jul 25 14:51 UTC] No.44510727[source]▶
The issue is that many folks rely on and even manufacture financial illiteracy as part of their "business"

It's extremely easy to give people what they want: a quick way to cancel a subscription. It should be criminal to deliberately hide that action behind phone calls etc.