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Reported earlier as an upcoming change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276698 https://news.ycombinator.com
by oneplane 4y ago
Reported earlier as an upcoming change:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276698
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773770
Like Jaxkr wrote: drive is getting rm'ed, and Photos is their replacement.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y agoThat must be related, although I wasn’t a Drive subscriber either (maybe I was back in 2015 and forgot, but definitely not in 2022). The automatic signup for a paid subscription is what’s really off about this.
- oneplane 4y agoYeah, that's a pretty wild one. You essentially have some free product, and happened to have a card on file and now suddenly you're subscribed to something. I don't know about US law, but in most of the northern western countries, companies aren't allowed to arbitrarily sign you up for stuff. Even if Amazon were to 'hide' this behind a "it is the same product but we changed the name and started charging" it wouldn't fly because they would then also have the service agreement changed which should be grounds for termination of the subscription rather than suddenly getting signed up for automatic payments.