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The actual win isn't the fine, it's

> and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime.

which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.



Huh, I was wondering why cancelling after a free trial recently was easier than the last time I cancelled a few years ago.



That’s double the amount of screens and triple the amount of clicks it should take.

I subscribe to as many things as I can through Apple because I can instantly unsubscribe without companies wasting my time.


It should be one click.


It’s one click buy and three click “unbuy”. Strange that the latter hasn’t yet been patented - perhaps the click count isn’t done yet.


I'm honestly confused, cancelling prime doesn't seem hard lol, its the typical "are you sure" shit every site has


> its the typical "are you sure" shit every site has

Saying "everyone does it" doesn't make it legal or right. Going after Amazon and winning a ruling against is a good first step in eliminating these exploitive practices everywhere.


Which because they have gotten away with it for so long, everyone else has been copying (or well I guess this has been going on for decades in various forms) them.

Ex, netflix, which has decided to pop up a 'we noticed there are people who don't live with you using your account, click here to pay us another $9/month' every time it starts on my TV, presumably because my underage child, who legally lives with me, uses it on her phone when she is away at school for 5 months a year.

And then when someone clicked the default pay us button, I was unable to figure out how to remove the charge without actually calling and telling them I was canceling after 20+ years. (the whole extra member thing wasn't showing up in the web ui, no idea why, maybe its because of the TV clicking process).




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