You're paying for subscriptions you forgot about and companies make it deliberately impossible to cancel
The average person pays for 2 to 3 subscriptions they no longer use. It is not forgetfulness. It is by design. Cancellation flows are engineered to exhaust you into giving up, and the tools built to fight back are either clunky, untrustworthy, or both.
Who has this problem
Consumers with 5+ recurring subscriptions
People who've lost track of what they're paying for and want them found and cancelled automatically, rather than fighting each cancellation flow themselves.
Free-trial signers
People who forget to cancel before the first charge.
Small businesses paying for forgotten software seats
Companies with recurring charges nobody owns.
State attorneys general and consumer agencies
Enforcers of auto-renewal laws, with the federal rule vacated.
Signal timeline
FTC signals it will pursue a narrower click-to-cancel rule via a new Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) rather than appeal the 8th Circuit's vacatur, restarting the rulemaking clock.
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