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Re:The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable ... by rootusrootus on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:57PM (#35277676)
I want this for all subscriptions, not just gym & cable. I had to waste 15 minutes of my life a few weeks ago convincing The Economist to actually cancel my subscription. They were deceitful and tried various ways of phrasing their counter offers hoping I'd slip up and say something other than "No, just cancel."

If I can sign up on the web site, I should be able to cancel with just as many clicks.

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Re:The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable ... by loaph on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:19PM (#35278051)
You should read the article! You would get this in the case you'd described as well
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Re:The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable ... by OkayPhysicist on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:42PM (#35282462)
> If I can sign up on the web site, I should be able to cancel with just as many clicks.

Fun fact! Websites actually have to support this for their California subscribers. If a website is refusing to let you do so, it's not that they haven't implemented it, it's just that they want to screw you. As a corollary, a lot of websites get a lot easier to cancel if you change your billing address to somewhere in CA.

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