https://x.com/linakhanFTC/status/1823094653962289640

This seems good but there was a much easier way to accomplish this objective: payment interfaces should have been designed from the start to make subscriptions one-click cancellable from the user interface. Like, you should be able to go into your banking UI, see all active subscriptions, and one-click cancel any of them. From that point, it's the service's responsibility to stop providing you service.

One benefit of crypto is that if you try to make a subscription system on top of it, you pretty much *have to* do it that way.

It's skeezy corporate tactics designed to keep us so frustrated with cancelling that we just don't.  And it wouldn't be hard to change it - it's a deliberate feature of corporate subscription systems, not a bug.

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No kidding.

I /had/ a Planet Fitness membership once. Took months and a written letter to cancel it. Absurd.

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Surprised they didn't simply keep track of the charges and send it to collections.

Planet Fitness is the WORST for that.  I had a membership once and I finally just gave up when the card was about to expire and they wouldn't be able to charge it anymore anyway.

it’s absurd you can’t tell credit cards to stop a recurring payment.