Here’s a con that’s entirely legal: Companies can sign you up for a membership in one click, then bury the cancel button so deep you give up and keep paying. Whole business models are built on it.
For one brief, shining moment, Washington was going to end it. In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission passed a “click to cancel” rule, which mandated that canceling had to be as easy as signing up. Then, days before it took effect in 2025, a federal appeals court threw it out on a technicality. Gone.
So no national rule is riding to your rescue, at least not soon. But here’s the part the subscription industry would rather you miss: The idea is clawing…
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