Opinion
By India McCarty
7/16/25
It looks like streamers won’t make it any easier to cancel your subscriptions — a federal appeals court just struck down an FTC rule that would’ve streamlined the process.
“[The court] struck down the FTC‘s ‘click to cancel’ rule, which would’ve required companies to provide users with simple cancellation mechanisms to immediately halt all recurring charges and get their consent to convert auto-renewals and free trials to paid enrollments,” The Hollywood Reporter explained.
Under this rule, businesses would not have been allowed to make it “more difficult to cancel than it is to sign up,” THR reported, adding that the rule was “intended to eliminate drawn-out cancellation processes aimed at trapping users in unwanted subscriptions.”
In addition to affecting streaming services, it also would have been implemented in business like gyms, which require memberships that can often be near-impossible to get out of.
Read full article here: https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/it-might-get-harder-to-cancel-those-unwanted-subscriptions.html#utm_source=daily
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