Federal appeals court blocks FTC's "click to cancel" rule requiring businesses to simplify subscription cancellations, citing procedural errors in implementation.

SAN JOSE — Meal kit maker HelloFresh has agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement in a consumer protection lawsuit for allegedly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions, ...

Subscription-based business models have become increasingly popular in recent years. According to a 2024 Bango survey of 5,000 U.S. subscribers, the average subscriber has 4.5 subscriptions, which ...

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The United States Federal Trade Commission tried to make it easy to cancel subscription services in 2023. The judiciary threw it out earlier this year, just before it was scheduled to go into effect, ...

Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule. The FTC hoped to enforce ...

New bill would make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. Backs a blocked FTC rule aimed at reining in deceptive cancellation practices. Consumer advocates call it a “commonsense” ...

Apple is expanding the capability of its In-App Purchase framework with a new retention messaging API. This means, for the first time, developers will be able to show offers to users when they go to ...

People who are angry about the state of our nation regularly tell me they feel powerless and ask what they can do to stop the descent of America into a fascist state. Today, I have some ideas. They ...

The "Click to Cancel" rule was proposed by the FCC last fall to make unsubscribing from a service as easy as signing up. It was supposed to help consumers avoid things like this: "I want to cancel." ...

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