• Tux@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 小时前

    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@feddit.org
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        2 小时前

        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.

  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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)
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    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.