The FTC on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program and intentionally complicated the cancellation process.

The agency claims Amazon used so-called “dark patterns” to steer users to enroll in Prime without their consent.

  • MuchPineapples
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    1 year ago

    After ordering something I somehow got prime, no idea how. Must have accidentally pressed something. So sneaky.

    Luckily I didn’t have saved payment options on my account. But then, without verified payment options, you can’t cancel prime! It’s the perfect (p/c)rime.

    • @twack
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      11 year ago

      For a little while the fastest and default shipping option included an auto renewing prime subscription.

      That little trick is probably one of the major reasons that they got in hot water