Tux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-227 days agoGuess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services harder to cancelwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1437arrow-down13cross-posted to: legalnews@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·26 days ago Amazon For as awful as Amazon is, I’ll give them this one. Cancelling prime is shockingly easy compared to what most places drag you through: account settings, prime, cancel, yes I’m sure, done. Requiring that from everyone would be a huge step forward. Also let’s make sure it forces gyms to do it, too.
minus-squareBlackmistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 days agoI was subbed to Humble Choice for a while. Trying to skip a month was a minefield of dark patterns. At least three confirmation screens, buttons swapping places and colours…
minus-squareslumberlust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoI’m not ready to give Amazon any credit here. They use a lot of scummy dark patterns like swapping accept/deny buttons and making accept super easy and friendly to click while decline is small plain text.
For as awful as Amazon is, I’ll give them this one.
Cancelling prime is shockingly easy compared to what most places drag you through: account settings, prime, cancel, yes I’m sure, done.
Requiring that from everyone would be a huge step forward. Also let’s make sure it forces gyms to do it, too.
I was subbed to Humble Choice for a while.
Trying to skip a month was a minefield of dark patterns. At least three confirmation screens, buttons swapping places and colours…
I’m not ready to give Amazon any credit here. They use a lot of scummy dark patterns like swapping accept/deny buttons and making accept super easy and friendly to click while decline is small plain text.