• lolola
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    4 hours ago

    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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    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Trespasser 🥉@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 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)