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It is when systems are intentionally designed to be extremely low friction to initiate and extremely high friction to cancel. In a lot of cases that’s exactly what happens.

To be fair, there should probably be a national consumer protection law that ties complexity of cancellation to complexity of sign up.



Some states in the US have laws on the books so that if you can sign up to a service online, you need to be able to cancel online—at least.




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