• @[email protected]
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    852 months ago

    Oh look, a list of shitty companies everyone should avoid.

    How nice of them to make it for us.

    • zewm
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      222 months ago

      That absolutely no one will avoid.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 months ago

          I’d love to see the USPS bring back basic banking and then double down by providing internet AS A SERVICE.

          It would bring in two solid revenue streams for the Post Office, and cut a lot of cancer from our economy.

        • ditty
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          32 months ago

          Also hard to boycott all the major media companies and tech companies as well

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      Without even looking at the list I know Amazon, Disney and Netflix will be on it.

      They know exactly how much they take every month from account that barely use them and they’d like to keep it.

      I think they should go one further with the rule. Anybody not using the service for a month gets to have it cancelled automatically, and only resumed when they use it again.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          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…

        • @slumberlust
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          22 months ago

          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.

      • @Gigasser
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        52 months ago

        Gym memberships should definitely be easier to cancel

      • @11111one11111
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        32 months ago

        Electronics Security Association Interactive Advertising Bureau NCTA The Internet and Television Association

        I’m picking up qhat you’re putting down about shitty companies but the problem with your guess is that almost 100% of the shitty companies using shitty marketing techniques you encounter in the average week are all outsourced to marketing firms like the three petitioning the lawsuit.

        No intention of this being “HAHA YOU WERE WRONG!” Just wanted to let you know there weren’t only 3 petitioning companies named in the court document. Unless they list more further into the document than fuckin page 60 cuz that’s where I threw in the towel lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    592 months ago

    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)
  • sunzu2
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    462 months ago

    FTC is interfering with corpo’s constitutional right to fuck the peasants!

    NOT IN MY AMERICA!!!

  • TuxOP
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    382 months ago

    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)
      • Elvith Ma'for
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        252 months ago

        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.

          • Elvith Ma'for
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            32 months ago

            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!

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months ago

          the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking

          that’s rarely a single click

          • Elvith Ma'for
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            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…

      • @PunchingWood
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        22 months ago

        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.

    • massive_bereavement
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      92 months ago

      You didn’t drink the verification can though… Now you would have to dance (and sing) the next three ads and start again.

  • @[email protected]
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    262 months ago

    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.

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      Well l mistyped it, now l fixed it

  • @hemmes
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    142 months ago

    Sirius XM has entered the chat

  • @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    California already has a law like this, so the companies have already implemented this workflow. They just need to remove the geogating.

  • @Mercuri
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    102 months ago

    It’s so fucking stupid. If you can sign up with a click, you should be able to cancel with a click. There’s no justifiable argument against that other than corporate greed.

    I do remember one of my most satisfying cancelation calls though. I just kept saying, “No.” Just “no”. No added explanation. No added reasoning. It frustrated the retention employee so much. They were like “but WHY?” They couldn’t try to convince me not to quit since I didn’t give them any reasons for why I didn’t want it, just that I didn’t want it.

  • @PunchingWood
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    92 months ago

    Guess who’s not bothering with subscriptions.

    • TuxOP
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      12 months ago

      ME

  • @[email protected]
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    Fight data caps bills comcast, not the consumer’s damn right to cancel a sub. Its supose to be “cancel anytime.” Like Google was once, "do no evil.’

    Imagine if Youtubers did this.