Amazon Prime is particularly heinous about using dark patterns to confound users into risking forgetting but ultimately you’ve already paid for the month, year

I can confirm this to also be the case with most streaming giants plus the less-giant Shutter

  • JackLSauce@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Any specific service you’ve seen doing this?

    I’ve not experimented as much with cloud providers or non-American companies so not yet sure if this is a byproduct of industry practice, market pressures on public companies or legal requirements and counter examples could help

    I should also point out the good: many of them (like Netflix) are very open about how cancelation works once one goes to that section of their site

      • anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca
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        17 days ago

        every subscription I’ve had through Apple ends at the end of the billing cycle, not immediately.

        and yes if you contact them right away they’ll refund you. had this happen a couple of times when I was a day off on when I thought the subscription was renewing.