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[-] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 2 days ago

It wasn't that hard to cancel. People are just dumb.

Now if you want a pain in the ass subscription to get rid of, I'll say Amazon that requires you 4 - 5 clicks to get rid of it as they're pleading with you to stay.

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Yes, Amazon is the worst! My echo dot asked me if I wanted to sign up for Amazon music, I said no, the echo dot misheard me and signed me up. Then I had to spend 10 minutes navigating the stupid Amazon website to cancel, making sure I click the correct greyed out button otherwise I'd have to start the process over again. Super anti-consumer behavior but what else would you expect from Amazon.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

My echo dot asked me if I wanted to sign up for Amazon music, I said no, the echo dot misheard me and signed me up.

People in 1960s would've deemed this sentence as deranged lol. You're talking to a machine and it misheard you and took your money? Are you pulling my leg?

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 4 points 2 days ago

The thing will just ask you and start taking your money if it thinks you said yes? I see so many ways this can go wrong, but then again, maybe that's is what amazon wants.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah but the thing is California law makes it pretty simple. It must be around as easy to cancel as it is to subscribe

If you're able to subscribe to Nitro by clicking a button in your hot bar you must be able to cancel Nitro via a similar method. It's one of the main reasons that Sirius XM allows canceling via a button if you have your residence set as California

With Discord Nitro they have pop-ups everywhere advertising you to try to get you to subscribe and all it takes is clicking the pop up and then hitting subscribe (if you already have a payment method saved), if you're looking to unsubscribe you have to going to your settings find your Discord Nitro subscription hit the cancel button find the cancel button on there please don't go button find the cancel button on the discount page that they give you to try to convince you not to go and then confirm it with an are you sure (unless they removed that one). It's not a very streamlined process

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

I have never had nitro but I did cancel Amazon prime easily.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Bullshit. I had to chargeback my credit card to cancel it, it was insane

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[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's because I live in California and we have rules about this shit to a degree but I remember it being as simple as logging in and saying "end this shit bitch"

If that changed/isn't the case elsewhere then yeah fuck em burn it

[-] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I cancelled mine last month, it was literally a couple of clicks. I got some ads about "all the things I would be losing" for some time after and that was it.

[-] Wade@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

This lawsuit is specifically about them breaking California law, so it still isn't simple enough I suppose

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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Reminder for everybody to never install Discord. It functions as a desktop web app, and you can even use it like so on your phone. You shouldn't even give Discord your phone number, tbh, and you should never pay them money.

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[-] donuts@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Friendly reminder you can cancel your trial version / free month if you have activated one recently, and you'll keep the perks until your trial runs out.

Glad they are going for this, although it seems a bit weird that they aren't going for bigger players that have similar or worse tactics.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Idk where they live but pressing cancel can't be that difficult surely.
Unless they changed that.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I never saw a reason to give my not-do-hard-earned money to discord, but I have done so elsewhere online, and I will continue to do so.

My approach is always the same: I use this one card I have that is by default blocking online purchases. But I can through my bank app allow online purchases for the next hour. Works great for those "free" trials that require your card details, hoping you'll forget to subscribe.

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