This should be punishible by law, jailtime included. The intent of the law is to give the consumer a choice. What these companies are doing are trying to circum

This should be punishible by law, jailtime included. The intent of the law is to give the consumer a choice. What these companies are doing are trying to circumvent the law by making it extremely difficult and annoying to exercise that choice. Very similar to trying to cancel a spammy subscription (but that's not mandated by law, so)