We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin' in cyberpunk dystopias... because you're in one.

what a shocker trump fucking over everyone again

This is the FTC's rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.

I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I'll never sign up with a gym again...Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

The "click-to-cancel" rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

It's been a law in Germany for three years now:

German Online Cancel Button Law

Just for that I'm going to put things in my Amazon and eBay accounts and just keep swapping stuff without buying anything for weeks at a time.

They doing any of this analysis on anything the current administration is up to?

So per the latest Supreme Court ruling, this only applies to that explicit case then, right?.... Right?

Well it's good to know that the courts are willing to tell the executive they can't do things. Shame about it only applying when the feds are helping ordinary people

I'd expect the Spanish inquisition long before I expect the government to do something good for the people.

the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule

The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.

Doesn't that ONLY apply to whatever circuit it's in?

Every single opportunity, however petty, to ensure we become more miserable evwry day.

By no means would we want customers of digital companies to easily cancel. This would remove revenue from the hands of billionaires! Once these services get your credit card they should be able to charge you again and again as long as they'd like. It's a customer's obligation to support billionaires' yatch payments.

• federal judges

So let's all cut down (or better yet, cut out) subscribing to things. That way we don't need an easy way to cancel and everyone will be happy ... except for the predators that live off of ripping people off with subscriptions.

Gotta love some hard hitting coverage by Engadget, followed immediately by "Best Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals."

Thank fuck I moved every account I could to one of my credit cards. Won't cancel?

That's fine, broski. I can cancel it from my end lmao 🤣

Corruption in the USA? Perish the thought. /S

Engadget seems to have the least amount of information on this topic. The Ars Technica article went into a lot more detail.

I think this is bad in the short term, but good in the long run. The ruling doesn't stop the FTC from going through the process again for the Click-to-Cancel rule. They just have to follow the correct procedures. In this case they underestimated the annual economic effect that their rule would have, and at a certain threshold they are required to have a preliminary regulatory analysis for a rule.

The administration can weaponize the FTC if they really want to, so the courts ruling that the FTC has to follow the correct procedures helps to at least keep some things in check.

I only subscribe to 2 services, my VPN provider and a usenet provider. Everything else turns out to be free.

What's WH?