nyktas

Could be muddy memories, but yeah, leaving a Classic subscriber to that is a shame.

You are right, so to be precise: that was a hypothesis. It could well be a cheaper human dev doing something they don't understand.

To be "fair" (if a victim "failing" to recognize a dark pattern should be counted on the victim), I wasn't exactly familiar with dark patterns, back when I cancelled the plan.

Interestingly, they didn't seem to set up much dark pattern for the cancellation of it - I recorded the automatically reinstated payment in a private rant post, but not a dark pattern in cancellation. To this point I don't really care to conspiracy this into the theory that they knew users who were angry enough to cancel couldn't be stopped, and/or the law might be against a dark cancellation pattern, but no so much as to a pause.

After they repeatedly reinstated, without consent, recurring payment for their subscription plan Humble Choice, which I repeatedly chose to pause (yes, they offered it as a first-party option), I had to cancel the plan entirely, as an early subscriber back when it's called Monthly.

It showed me that they just don't care anymore.

But it still baffles me as to how an LLM could make it this worse, when they already had decent security measures. No top-of-the-line model should've done this. I guess it can only be concluded that they didn't even care to spend some money on SOTA models, even DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, instead turning to the cheaper but also much less capable models to save a few pennies.