HelloFresh will pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging deceptive subscription practices in California. Prosecutors accused HelloFresh of automatically enrolling customers in subscriptions ...

Subscription-based business models have become increasingly popular in recent years. According to a 2024 Bango survey of 5,000 U.S. subscribers, the average subscriber has 4.5 subscriptions, which ...

Questionable practices have become common among sellers of subscription-based services. A new rule would have required sellers to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them, but it ...

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The United States Federal Trade Commission tried to make it easy to cancel subscription services in 2023. The judiciary threw it out earlier this year, just before it was scheduled to go into effect, ...

What just happened? A court decision temporarily halted the rollout of the FTC's click-to-cancel rule last month, but the drive for greater transparency and simplicity for consumers navigating the ...

CINCINNATI — Breaking up with subscription services just got harder again. A federal court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's new rule that would have made canceling subscriptions as simple as ...

“Click-to-cancel” is canceled for now, but consumers have some options while some lawmakers make a push to revive the effort to make it just as easy to cancel subscriptions and memberships as it is to ...

The "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have forced businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions, was blocked by a federal court days before it was set to take effect, the ...

Now more than ever, it seems that everyone’s shelling out for subscription services and products. Unfortunately, the more things you subscribe to, the harder it is to see how it’s impacting your ...