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It should be a law that you should be able to turn off auto-renew on subscription services without canceling the plan (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip to c/assholedesign@lemmy.ml

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I don't see any downsides or arbitrariness of this suggestion, I mean, there are some services I will use for one month, and I intend to use it for that month, but it happened before where I would forget to cancel it, and this has happened to other users too, by default, auto-renew should be off, I don't really know any strong arguments that can go against this point, I mean, auto-renew can be useful, but there are many cases where it could be harmful and even though people do forget it, it might be a tiny bit deceptive in some cases.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

how would offering a free trial (eg: not requiring payment) be abusing a free trial?

[–] Probius@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I believe the theory is that without unique payment information being provided each time, one could simply sign up for a new free trial every time the previous one expired.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In a universe with routine machine fingerprinting and phone apps, i find this a rather dubious argument

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

It is a good self-serving excuse, not a good argument.

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