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
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.
Guess who’s not bothering with subscriptions.
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 first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking
that’s rarely a single click
The only way to save that setting would be with a cookie, so it appears to be working
You didn’t drink the verification can though… Now you would have to dance (and sing) the next three ads and start again.
