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For me: Cancelling paid subscriptions should be as easy as subscribing. I hate the fact that they actively hide the unsubscribe option or that you sometimes should have to write an e-mail if you want to unsubscribe.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I don't know how this works in the US, but where I live after a year subscription (let's say for your internet provider or something). They can only renew per month. So if the year subscription is over you can cancel any service every month and they can't hit you with any fees.

Back in the day if you'd forgot to cancel your plan you'd be stuck with them for another year. It sucked!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Dating sites besieging their users with bots and fake profiles.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The FTC under Biden was actually craking down on that. It was called the "Click to Cancel" rule, but that was literally a month before the election. :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Lina Khan was a perhaps once in a lifetime bureaucrat doing good for the people at a rapid pace on normal government timelines and now she’ll probably never get that job or a better one again.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

In the US, unsubscribing from email spam is legally required to be easy under the CAN-SPAM act. For paid subscription services, I believe they also are required to be as easy to leave as they are to join in the EU and California.

Somewhat related, many dark patterns are treated like fraud.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

all i’m going to say is whatever shit adobe is pulling because i could yap about this forever with anyone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Which particular part? I'm interested and somewhat outside of the situation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

the fact that they decided to charge $90 a month and $65 to cancel is truly evil

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Companies changing the terms of the contract on you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but - in many of those contracts (particularly end-user license agreements) you agreed to them changing the terms of the contract. You also have an "out" - not using the product any more.

You're right though: it's slimy. Anything slimy thing can be put into a contract!

Source: I'm not a lawyer, but worked in an office with a lot of them, and worked with software license agreements in particular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so curious now. Do you know how those apply? I mean, can they change the terms on you without notice or is that notice legally required? And say they want to feed all your data of however many years to AI. If you accidentally use it once, do they get permission for everything? What if you agree only because you want to delete your data?

I have so many questions. lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

You usually get an email saying something is changing. Problem is, you've already paid and if it's a material change, now you have to agree to continue using your property. Sometimes you don't get a notice and it's a "software update" that now pushes ads onto a product you bought and are now shit outta luck since you can't return it. Samsung and Roku are bad for this.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Loaning money to your own political campaign and then paying yourself back, including an interest rate set by you, using donor funds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There are a number of things that are legal here in the US, which would count as corruption in other places.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Riding down a mountain road on a bicycle, going 50 mph, without a helmet on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

That is illegal in a bunch of places, riding a bike without a helmet

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