Asshole Design

1306 readers

1 users here now

Nothing comes before profit -- especially not the consumer.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

108

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 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Personally I believe free trials are a great idea, and businesses should be able to offer them eithout the risk of losing actual business to it l, while at the same time I believe people should be able to make an informed decision before entering a payment (even more so to a recurring one).

This could be arranged by a simple request from the vendor that confirms you wish to pay or not when the trial ends.

To me this sounds like a perfectly reasonable requirement that doesn't try to trick either side of the transaction.