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NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subsc… (www.theverge.com)
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Full title: NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gyms would go bankrupt

[–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Frankly they should

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

Correct I wonder what the allowance of the business funding is attributed to subscriptions not used. I think they must factor it in. Then second question is how much with this actually cost them,