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trespasser69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

How to cancel 750$/week subscription service in 2069 (easiest method):

Pay 69,420$ for cancellation fee
Write long 10K word essay
Give or your goverment-issued docuemnts as well as your relatives’ ID
Give your DNA sample
Insert Neurolink to read your mind
Let our 69,420 partners to track your activity for “personalized ads” (Basicly manipulating you to buy crappy stuff you don’t needed)

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Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
European version -

Click

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- elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nah, it’s at least two clicks - the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking (which won’t save that setting and ask again on every page load/click on the page as you might want to be tracked in two minutes) and another one to cancel.
  
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  - rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The only way to save that setting would be with a cookie, so it appears to be working
    
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    elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Somewhat - some site just don’t set a consent cookie if you deny cookies. First, they didn’t set Cookies as you requested - second, they can easily ask again on your next page load!
    
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking
    
    that’s rarely a single click
    
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    elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Depends, I’m from Europe and there are any sites that allow that. You might need to search for a bit (e.g. not a button but a link in some fine print). But yes, there are many sites that just don’t have a “decline all” button and that ask you to deny every one of their 937.726.193.372.129 partners (most of them double, as you need to deselect the partner and their “legitimate interests” separately…
    
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- PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wonder when they’re gonna do that for Adobe products in Europe. Has to be one of the most scummiest subscription services present day. If you cancel too early you have to pay up a “cancellation” fee for remaining time of the month, or sometimes even more I believe. If you do it too late you’ll have to pay for a whole new subscription, and pay for the cancellation fee. I don’t even know why they’re allowed to pull that shit on consumers.
  
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