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US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court | Canceling subscriptions should be easy, lawmakers say, reviving FTC fight.


Canceling subscriptions should be easy, lawmakers say, reviving FTC fight.

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 the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. Had the court not intervened, the click-to-cancel rule would have taken effect this month, and Democratic Congressmembers Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.), and Chris Deluzio (D-Penn.)

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