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Re:New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and ge... by arafeq on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:59AM (#47614608)
the real fix would be at the payment layer. let me cancel recurring charges from my bank/card directly without having to beg the merchant. some fintechs already do this but it should be standard.
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Re:New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and ge... by ceejayoz on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:05AM (#47614677)
This is one of the few genuine niceties of PayPal.
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Re:New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and ge... by arafeq on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:18AM (#47614858)
yeah revolut does this too. the irony is traditional banks could have offered this years ago but there was zero incentive for them to make it easy for customers to stop paying merchants.
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