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> Shutterstock failed to get consent to charge consumers’ credit cards before charging them for subscriptions This sounds like it should carry criminal penalti

• zurtri 5mo ago
  Well, if you or I did it - of course! But when Corporate does it, we just handwave it way.
• jjtheblunt 5mo ago
  Conde Nast is _horrible_ this way, tried for a second year in a row to charge me for Wired, which i do not subscribe to, could not explain where they got the idea i did, evidently had access through some dark pattern from years earlier to charge for something i must have bought as a magazine on iOS. It took hours of online chat argument with the unfortunate real employee fielding such pissed customers, and threats of legal action, eventually citing their legal counsel by email address and full name (from the Conde Nast site), before they agreed to _not_ charge me whatever obscene yearly subscription would be. They can burn in crooked hell after that nonsense. I wonder if the Reddit people are bothered by their owner, as I had a personally signed generally cheery note from maybe Alexis back when i first subscribed and bought a tshirt, going on 20 years ago i guess.
  • runako 5mo ago
    > I wonder if the Reddit people are bothered by their owner Quick note -- Reddit went public in 2024, so Condé Nast is no longer their owner.
    • jjtheblunt 5mo ago
      oh cool!