Oh look, a list of shitty companies everyone should avoid.
How nice of them to make it for us.
That absolutely no one will avoid.
Hard to avoid the local cable monopoly for internet.
Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:
- Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
- Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
- Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
- Home security (ADT)
How to cancel 750$/week subscription service in 2069 (easiest method):
- Pay 69,420$ for cancellation fee
- Write long 10K word essay
- Give or your goverment-issued docuemnts as well as your relatives’ ID
- Give your DNA sample
- Insert Neurolink to read your mind
- Let our 69,420 partners to track your activity for “personalized ads” (Basicly manipulating you to buy crappy stuff you don’t needed)
European version -
Click
Nah, it’s at least two clicks - the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking (which won’t save that setting and ask again on every page load/click on the page as you might want to be tracked in two minutes) and another one to cancel.
The only way to save that setting would be with a cookie, so it appears to be working
Somewhat - some site just don’t set a consent cookie if you deny cookies. First, they didn’t set Cookies as you requested - second, they can easily ask again on your next page load!
the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking
that’s rarely a single click
Depends, I’m from Europe and there are many local sites that allow that. You might need to search for a bit (e.g. not a button but a link in some fine print). But yes, there are many sites that just don’t have a “decline all” button and that ask you to deny every one of their 937.726.193.372.129 partners (most of them double, as you need to deselect the partner and their “legitimate interests” separately…
Wonder when they’re gonna do that for Adobe products in Europe. Has to be one of the most scummiest subscription services present day. If you cancel too early you have to pay up a “cancellation” fee for remaining time of the month, or sometimes even more I believe. If you do it too late you’ll have to pay for a whole new subscription, and pay for the cancellation fee. I don’t even know why they’re allowed to pull that shit on consumers.
You didn’t drink the verification can though… Now you would have to dance (and sing) the next three ads and start again.
FTC is interfering with corpo’s constitutional right to fuck the peasants!
NOT IN MY AMERICA!!!
Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel
Maybe I’m misreading, but that seems backwards in the title. Companies are fighting to make subscriptions harder to cancel.
Well l mistyped it, now l fixed it
Sirius XM has entered the chat
Guess who’s not bothering with subscriptions.
ME
