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Well, now, that is interesting.

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>I found the best new thing artificial intelligence can do for your personal life: quit online subscriptions. It ain’t superintelligence. But it is useful. And the way it works — along with when it fails — offers us a snapshot of one of the most-promising frontiers in AI, known as “agents.” I recently wanted to quit Hulu and Disney+, but grew annoyed as I hunted for a cancel button. Making it annoying to quit is part of the business model for many companies. Amazon is paying $2.5 billion to settle with the Federal Trade Commission for tricking people into subscribing to Prime and then making it hard to cancel.

Well, now, that is interesting. Archive: https://archive.today/TMGRZ From the post: >>I found the best new thing artificial intelligence can do for your personal life: quit online subscriptions. It ain’t superintelligence. But it is useful. And the way it works — along with when it fails — offers us a snapshot of one of the most-promising frontiers in AI, known as “agents.” I recently wanted to quit Hulu and Disney+, but grew annoyed as I hunted for a cancel button. Making it annoying to quit is part of the business model for many companies. Amazon is paying $2.5 billion to settle with the Federal Trade Commission for tricking people into subscribing to Prime and then making it hard to cancel.
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[–] • 2 pts

Not really sure about that. I think I have only forgotten about maybe one or two and they were on a like 6+ month renewal and when I saw it I canceled it immediately and filed a claim for a refund.

One of them tried to screw with me until I told their rep that I was willing to spend more on a Lawyer than their shitty subscription that used dark patterns to keep you from being able to cancel. They refunded me.

[–] • 2 pts

Sounds like you were trying to cancel Sirius XM lol

[–] • 2 pts

Actually, I canceled Sirius and had no issues. Though, that was a VERY long time ago. I bet its a real PITA today though.

[–] • 3 pts

I've had it a few times. First time was 2006 when Howard Stern first moved over. Took over a month to cancel when I realized I never listened to anything and his show wasn't good anymore. Then I got it again in 2010 when Radio Shack has a sale on the equipment. Same thing as last time: took about a month of fighting them because they kept saying a manager or someone else would call me back from the cancelation department.

Last time was when I got my Subaru and it came with a free 3 months. They actually sent me to collections rather than just turning off the service because I refused to give them a card. That was a massive pain and I had to threaten legal action before they dropped the charges.

Never again.