Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’
www.theverge.com
Who would have guessed?
  • Trespasser 🥉@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    4 hours 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@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        4 hours 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@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            15 minutes ago

            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…

          • elvith@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            18 minutes 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!