In a move proponents say will save constituents up to $162.5 million annually, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other New York City officials on Friday unveiled a “click-to-cancel” rule aimed at ensuring people can end online subscriptions as easily as they start them.

Days after entering office in January, Mamdani signed a pair of executive orders, “Combating Hidden Junk Fees” and “Fighting Subscription Tricks and Traps”—his 9th and 10th mayoral edicts—to protect consumers and make it easier “for New Yorkers to know the real price of what they are buying and to stop paying for the services they no longer want.”

Following up on the orders, Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine proposed a rule “requiring transparent, all-in pricing that bans hidden junk fees, alongside a final ‘click to cancel’ rule that guarantees consumers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up for them.”

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    12 hours ago

    Not a corporate cuck, but how can this be applied in just one city? Seems like a law that sounds good but is ultimately unenforceable at a municipal level.

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      5 hours ago

      Just like EU laws are only enforced for EU citizens, but impacts the entire world as it’s easier to allow everyone the features they built to comply with EU laws

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      If companies can’t accurately apply it in just one city, then they should apply it to a wider range that englobes that one city. Not that hard!

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      It’s enforceable if you want to. The real question is if companies want to be evil enough to just ban NY residents over this, or if they just allow everyone to easily cancel.