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Re:Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prim... by WA on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:26AM (#36430486)
German here. Cancelling prime is full with dark patterns as well. I just looked it up. The wording is completely unclear. The text says:

"Mitgliedschaft kündigen Wenn du deine Mitgliedschaft jetzt kündigst, verlierst du den Zugriff auf deine Prime-Vorteile."

→ Continue

"X, warum auf alle Prime-Vorteile verzichten? Du kannst Prime noch 172 Tage bis zur nächsten Zahlung genießen. Du verlierst damit den Zugang zu diesen und weiteren Vorteilen, die in deiner Mitgliedschaft inklusive sind: ..."

→ "Mit Kündigung fortfahren"

The text makes it sound as if you cancel all benefits right away, but still pay for the full year.

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Re:Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prim... by throwaway462910 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:34AM (#36430554)
Similar in the UK, but I've used tor free trial enough times to notice the difference, if you're not paying it specifically mentions that you will lose benefits immediately. Interestingly on the "week for 99p" trial, you lose benefits immediately and get a partial refund, if you cancel soon enough? if you haven't hit a certain number of orders? Not sure. They'll also refund if you cancel at the start of a new month having not made any orders.
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