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Adobe needs to be next. I had to cancel a card because that was easier than cancelling Creative Cloud.
Daylight robbery.
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Conde Nast is _horrible_ this way, tried for a second year in a row to charge me for Wired, which i do not subscribe to, could not explain where they got the idea i did, evidently had access through some dark pattern from years earlier to charge for something i must have bought as a magazine on iOS. It took hours of online chat argument with the unfortunate real employee fielding such pissed customers, and threats of…
> I wonder if the Reddit people are bothered by their owner Quick note -- Reddit went public in 2024, so Condé Nast is no longer their owner.
A great idea of a product is some sort of unified system for companies to correctly manage subscriptions. There needs to be standards for what makes a user flow acceptable or not when it comes to cancellations.
I'm old enough to remember when we had a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to push back against this kind of anti-consumer crap. It got doge'd by Dumpty/Musk.
They stopped Shutterstock?
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The customer lying about their information to intentionally bypass companies' anti fraud systems.
Bullshit, it's perfectly fine and legal to refuse to give companies your address or SSN.
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Is upping the fee and automatically confirming the contract without a re-up "perfectly normal"? Seems doubtful.
Yes? Commercial leases (and residential for that matter) commonly have increase clauses that operate automatically (CPI, 3/4/5%, market review, etc).
Even if it were technically legal it should distress you.
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Why is number of images more 'real' than number of users? What is your strategy for all you can eat buffets?
That's a different scenario. All you can eat buffets people will turn up and all eat a similar amount. At a company, multiple people will want to logon and look but fundamentally the only entity that needs to download is the business. Each staff member won't each be downloading similar numbers of photos. It makes more sense just to have multiple access points to one fixed account.