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New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel--consumer-prot https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani...
- bell-cot 3mo agoNo mention of the New York Times, or its practices?
- gruez 3mo agoWhy should it be mentioned? The article doesn't call out any other specific company by name. Is the Times really that egregious of a offender compared to the other businesses? Does new york city have a history of selectively enforcing laws to favor local businesses?
- wincy 3mo agoIf anything, based on Louis Rossman’s experiences it’s quite the opposite - petty bureaucrats do their damndest to ensure it’s as difficult as possible to run a business in New York.
- cm2012 3mo agoNew York Times is one of the worst and most famous offenders of making it hard to cancel your subscription. There are companies that make it as hard or spammy but few with the reach of the NYT
- bell-cot 3mo agoI was thinking more of the Times and Guardian being in rather similar lines of work, and the opportunity to cast some shade on a rival.
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoNYT is the biggest brand that I know of that pulls these "easy to subscribe, hard to unsubscribe" antics. Especially galling because if you live in california, you can cancel with just a click, so obviously it is possible, but if you live in 49 other states you are forced to listen to a sales pitch from a human before being allowed to unsubscribe
- lostlogin 3mo ago> Is the Times really that egregious of an offender compared to the other businesses? Yes.
- munk-a 3mo agoI suppose right now there is no federal preemption - but I fully expect gym & similar lobbying at the federal level to get a rule in place to allow preemption challenges.
- sxp 3mo agoIt's unclear whether this junk fee law will have teeth. In theory, California has the same anti-drip pricing law, but restaurants have a specific carve out [1] which is bullshit because the drip pricing that most people complain about is the X% "service charges" and "lifestyle fees" that restaurants have at the bottom of their menu in small print. From what I can tell online, NYC rules won't have this carveout, but I haven't eaten there recently so I can't confirm. [1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1524 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
- dghlsakjg 3mo agoFees on one time services are not what this is targeting. This legislation is not meant to address that, and wouldn't apply to that. They are going after recurring billing (that's what the headline means by "subscription"). It mentions things like gyms, online subscriptions etc. It would be pretty wild if they had managed to get service fees at restaurants when they were not at all targeting service fees, restaurants or one time in person purchases.
- sxp 3mo agoFrom TFA: > Rule from Mamdani administration ... targets ‘junk fees’ > The city is also targeting so-called “junk fees” that raise the final price of everything from apartments to sporting events, with a proposed rule that requires sellers to “advertise the total price for any good or service, including all mandatory additional charges and fees, up front”, according to a release shared with the Guardian.
- dnautics 3mo agoi think drip pricing was already cracked down on by the FTC as of 2025
- ryandrake 3mo ago> proposed rule that requires sellers to “advertise the total price for any good or service, including all mandatory additional charges and fees, up front” This is going to be tough to enact, anywhere in the USA, even New York. There is nothing quite as American as "not knowing what you're going to pay for something until you have to pay." Whether it's your doctor bill, restaurant bill with tips and service fees, your hotel stay with a hidden resort fee, or just general purchases where tax is computed at the very end right before you pay... We are culturally so used to this abuse.
- drcongo 3mo agoAny chance you could lend Mamdani to the UK? We have a vacancy.
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- xp84 3mo agoDepends who you ask!
- Apocryphon 3mo agoHasn’t Sadiq Khan been a similar story, from a Muslim immigrant family turned popular mayor of the nation’s largest city? Though from what I understand he’s from the more business-oriented center-left, in contrast with Mamdani.
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- drcongo 3mo agoYeah, he's much more centre left, but also the London Mayor has very little actual power. It's the PM vacancy we need a Mamdani in but we're about to get a near clone of the bloke who just resigned.
- inigyou 3mo agoThere are thousands of Mamdanis in every country. Don't ask yourself if you can have that one - ask yourself why you don't elect one of your own.
- econ 3mo agoMaybe it should be required to review quality laws in other countries in general. One advantage is that you don't have to pretend or imagine what will happen if it's been tested in the wild.
- aioproductos 3mo agoI'm building a SaaS right now and made the "non-deceptive" choices this law wants: cancellation is one click from settings, no retention maze, no surprise renewal, 30-day money-back. What surprised me is how much the tooling assumes you want the dark patterns. Billing platforms ship "cancellation flow" templates that are really retention funnels — discount offer, pause offer, survey, guilt screen, then maybe the button. The default path is the deceptive path; you have to actively rip stuff out to be straightforward. Which I think explains why this needs regulation at all. Every individual dark pattern is locally rational — it demonstrably improves net retention, so any PM optimizing a dashboard will keep it. The cost (people who feel trapped and tell everyone) never shows up in the same spreadsheet. Markets are bad at pricing "customers who quietly hate you." The one-click-cancel requirement is the part with real teeth. Junk-fee rules die by carve-out (see California's restaurant exemption), but "cancel must be as easy as signup" is binary enough to actually enforce.
- TylerE 3mo agoA big one I’ve been seeing a lot lately is advertising annual subscriptions as monthly rates. It isn’t $12/month subscription if I have to pay $120 in a lump sum up front. The actual monthly rate is often basically double what they’re advertising.
- Jblx2 3mo ago>$12/month subscription if I have to pay $120 in a lump sum up front. Sounds like they are giving you two months free if you pay with a lump sum in advance.
- nemomarx 3mo agoWhich is a fair discount, but it should be like "15 a month, 120 if you get a year up front" right?
- Jblx2 3mo ago$15/month * 12 months = $180 $12/month * 12 months = $144 $120 / 12 months = $10/month
- preg_match 3mo agoRight but the 10/month price is actually unreachable, I can't pay 10 dollars every single month. Which is generally what that language means to consumer. When we say "10 dollars per month" that parses as "10 dollars paid each month" NOT "10 dollars per month of service". I understand that's strange, but that's how I would say almost all consumers read it.
- arrowsmith 3mo agoYes but it's always advertised as "$12/MONTH" in big letters with billed annually written somewhere small and non-obvous.
- Razengan 3mo agoDid a politician's kid rack up hundreds of dollars on some stupid game? I still don't know why Apple, oft parading as the people's champion, automatically converts trials to subscriptions. So many scummy apps exploit this by offering a 1 week trial and saying like "only $4/month!" but charging a 1 year's sub after the trial period ends.
- expedition32 3mo agoDon't link a card or bank account to your play store account. They can't take money that isn't there.
- Razengan 3mo agoI load money on the App Store with gift cards, that's why unintended subs suck even worse
- cyberax 3mo agoNice. Now just force stores to display actual prices with tax.
- summarybot 3mo agoIn Australia they call this price the price-"sorted." "7 dollars sorted." for example.
- tc43 3mo agoAustralian here, never heard "sorted". It does sound very Australian though, probably a Queensland thing.
- anenefan 3mo agoQueenslander here and not a term I've noticed myself, bar one commercial on tv that used an animated meerkat, other than that not a big consumer of buying much or booking things online, though I'd understand if I saw it tagged to something where one time pricing event might sprawl ... subscription stuff, nah not happening.
- summarybot 3mo agoYou don't recognize it? Haha oh man, I wonder if: it's invisible to you because you're swimming in the soup, or it's just something people in Sydney say. Or maybe it was tourists from another country that I overheard! Haha sorry to generalize I was only there a few months!
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- gumby 3mo agoThese rules are great but “landmark” seems like puffery, as California has had such rules for quite a while. Ironically that has meant it’s hard to unsubscribe from the New York Times except in California.
- aczerepinski 3mo agoI once wrote code that checks location before hiding/showing the cancel button. It’s really absurd that the nice experience exists on all subscription sites by now but you only get to see it if your state demands it.
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- acdha 3mo agoI don’t like it either but blame goes to the top of the org chart. That’s not illegal or, by the standards of the field, flagrantly unethical so it’s a bit extreme to expect someone to resign over.
- walt_grata 3mo agoBlame goes to everyone involved. From the decision makers to the implementors
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoOfficial release: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel--consumer-prot https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani...
- jzer0cool 3mo agoNintendo (subscription I have for my switch to access some older a classic games btw) is very good reminding me I have a subscription and whether I want to cancel (or renew). I don't have the email at hand but what I remember is thinking they really desire you to reflect to cancel (rather than a push to renew) if not wanting continued service. Sentiment of politeness and I find a good example what to do. Also, not a subscription but seeing some dark practices after COVID onset at any fast-food like business (including cafes, juices, cupcakes, etc) where a preselected tip is selected. Default should be no.
- Swizec 3mo ago> where a preselected tip is selected. Default should be no. A lot of this push to higher and higher and preselected tip options comes from POS software providers (Square et al) and credit card companies. They make money on transaction volume. Higher transaction -> more fees
- nsagent 3mo agoThe restaurants get to set those values though. A coffee shop near me puts the default options as $1, $2, $3 for low order totals. So if I go in and get a coffee (which is $4.50), the lowest tip option is 22% and the highest is a whopping 66%. I've seriously gotten tip fatigue and have been working to move back to a sane standard. I've noticed the places that have these crazy tips, also pay their staff well.
- everybodyknows 3mo agoRecall that they're tax-deductible now -- so tips are the most efficient way to compensate employees. You're feeling the second-order effects of the inevitable business model change.
- dqv 3mo agoIt goes > Subject: Information about Your Automatic Renewal > This is an automatically generated email from Nintendo for customers who have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual 12‑month (365‑day) membership set to renew automatically. > Dear [user], > Your Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual 12‑month (365‑day) membership will automatically renew soon. > ... > Deadline to turn off automatic renewal: [1 month from now] It also does this right when you first sign up for automatic renewal except the deadline is [1 year from now].
- clonedhuman 3mo agoOH NO THIS IS THE SOCIALISMS!!!!!111
- summarybot 3mo agoHow many legislative days did it take to get this policy in place, I wonder
- josefritzishere 3mo agoThis should be federal law.
- Arubis 3mo agoIndeed. But the feds have picked a side, and right now, it's not yours.
- petilon 3mo agoWill New York City residents be able to avoid AT&T's "Administrative and Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee"? https://www.al.com/news/2026/07/att-customers-your-cell-phone-bill-is-about-to-go-up.html https://www.al.com/news/2026/07/att-customers-your-cell-phon...
- gzer0 3mo agoAnother one that belongs on this list: AI-generated photos in housing listings. You can no longer tell what the property actually looks like, and the images conveniently erase the problem spots you'd only catch in person. False advertising is getting completely out of hand.
- nemomarx 3mo agoIt's crazy that people think they should get away with these. I've seen some examples where basic things like the number of windows or where the garage and driveway are was totally misrepresented - surely they'd at least look at the results?
- CodingJeebus 3mo agoI agree, but how does one begin to enforce a ban like this? Bait-and-switch has always existed in real estate, which is all the more reason to do full due-diligence and inspect the property thoroughly and not just put in an offer sight unseen. If a seller is using AI to that extent, I'd be worried about what else they're hiding about the property.
- plagiarist 3mo agoSimply remove protections and deal out massive fines to platforms hosting obviously fraudulent listings, they will figure out solutions overnight.
- simpaticoder 3mo ago>I agree, but how does one begin to enforce a ban like this? Look to something that works to modify behavior: credit reports. Make it easy to report an actor for malfeasance, assume they are guilty until proven innocent, and force them to defend themselves to the agency. Since we invent these tools for evil, we may as well use them for good.
- everybodyknows 3mo ago> seller is using AI to that extent Useful info for any later negotiation. They've revealed they are: A: Dishonest B: Not too bright
- nadermx 3mo agoThe irony with all this, is if a company makes it difficult to cancel their subscription, it's probably not a good product. Antidotically, I've found that making it easy for users to not only cancel, but refund, has given me eye opening things to fix in some products that made it so less people cancelled or refunded. So I try to always err on best user experience.
- plagiarist 3mo agoYou are interested in providing something worth paying for. Other people are interested in maximizing ROI for ad spend.
- jonahx 3mo ago> Antidotically, Anecdotally
- lostlogin 3mo agoThe practice being discussed is poison, so it sort of works.
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoNYT made it difficult, and they are a pretty good product. If you didn't live in california and wanted to cancel your subscription, you were required to talk to a service rep who would try to get you stay by giving you some free period before normal subscription billing resumed
- lostlogin 3mo agoI know of 4 NYT subscriptions that have not been made due to the difficulty in cancelling. I’m sure they know the exact stats, and are getting more cash as a result of their BS. Good site, trash business practices.
- pixel_popping 3mo agoI doubt so, I think a large amount of serious companies do it as well because it's a very simple way to earn much more money (and strangely improve the service), many businesses (even "good") often rely solely on this, Gym businesses is the typical example of this and many gyms will just not be able to make money at all if people actually used their membership correctly, literally space-wise, it can't fit, many businesses are entirely based on "failure", however, we can acknowledge that some Gyms are exceptional in quality, but will still bank on the fact that the user will just stop going, ideally as soon as possible. I'm not saying it's right, but the reality is that probably half the gyms would close immediately if this is enforced.
- xp84 3mo agoI wonder if the bit about 'junk fees' will include undisclosed hotel fees. I just stayed there last week in a no-frills "hotel" which doesn't include daily room cleaning, has no staff at night, and has no amenities whatsoever, and they charged me a surprise-at-check-in $35 a night resort fee. This fee was not described in the booking.
- criddell 3mo agoThat hotel may have broken an FTC rule that's been in effect for about a year now. > Effective May 12, 2025, the FTC’s Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees, 16 C.F.R. Part 464, prohibits bait-and-switch pricing and other tactics used to obscure and misrepresent total prices and fees for live-event tickets and short-term lodging. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/rule-unfair-or-deceptive-fees-frequently-asked-questions https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/rule-unfair-...
- stingraycharles 3mo agoWhat the hell is a resort fee?
- Esophagus4 3mo ago> When the Biden administration introduced a junk fee rule in 2024, the US Chamber of Commerce argued it was “an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures”, and apartment fees were cut from that federal rule after lobbying by the real-estate industry. This drives me nuts to read, because it’s usually the same pattern. Rule -> lobbyists descend -> politicians cave -> carve out that takes away the whole point of the rule -> everyone declares victory
- make3 3mo agoI don't expect that Mamdani will cave in to real estate lobbyists lol. What you're describing is exactly why Establishment Democrats are losing to Mamdani and his ilk (DSA)
- throwaway27448 3mo agoI don't see Mamdani as somehow invulnerable to lobbyists; but they realistically have little leverage over him.
- bkeyes 3mo agoFunny this should come up today. I just got a notice from my credit card company that Evernote just charged my credit card after 2 'successful' cancellations of my subscription each of the last 2 years, and the complete deletion of my account several months ago. Hopefully these will become more widespread - I'm not in NY or CA.
- summarybot 3mo agoSharks will keep eating easy prey until they hit an iron bar. I also hate this fact about the world by the way :) Just a [hardwon] observation.
- puchatek 3mo agoPeople who forget to cancel are easy prey. Cancelling then being charged anyway is something else. Something akin to being robbed IMHO.
- vvpan 3mo agoA complimentary complaint is that payments are a "pull" operation with subscriptions. You can't decide who gets your money. How retro is that!
- brookside 3mo agoBending Spoons acquired Evernote: "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799966
- summarybot 3mo agoJust compel Stripe to do it,* problem 99% solved. *Direct click-to-cancel with subscription receipt.
- CSMastermind 3mo agoIs this something that cities can really enforce? Like I get that NYC is a bit of an exception but let's say a 5 person town in Wyoming decides that they want to make this practice illegal and they all vote to do so. It's not clear to me that would mean anything at all.
- kulahan 3mo agoYour question answers exactly how enforceable it is. It’s directly linked to your population size and how much it can hurt the wallet of the company. Edit: but also, who cares? Literally no solution to anything on earth works for EVERYONE
- quickthrowman 3mo agoNYC has ~2% of the US population, and it’s a relatively wealthy slice compared to the mean. NYC has roughly 13x as many people as the entire state of Wyoming. I could see a company writing off Wyoming entirely (not likely, but possible) but not NYC. States like CA, FL, NY, and TX can pass state laws that create defacto national regulations through sheer size, but smaller than that and you’ll have trouble.
- CSMastermind 3mo agoSure but say some company based in Lousiana has a website that violates NYC law. What exactly will NYC do about it? Is there some mechanism to for them to block the website inside of NYC? The company would presumably have no property they could seize or employees they could imprison. If it were a state passing the law then they could sue for enforcement in federal court but I don't think a city could?
- blackqueeriroh 3mo agoSurprise! They can imprison the employees
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- j45 3mo agoLong overdue, enshittification reaching SaaS undermines trust in all tech in the long term.
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- tamimio 3mo agoShould ban the tips if it’s not included in “hidden fees”, and force restaurants to pay proper wages like other workers.
- seattle_spring 3mo agoThe "and" is very important here. Places like Seattle now mandate servers get a real wage. It inexplicably hasn't changed tip culture at all, so now they get regular wages and still complain when someone doesn't tip 20%+ for a takeout order.
- mmmattt 3mo agoThe mandate stipulates that they can get minimum wage, I wouldn’t call that a “regular” wage, and certainly not a livable one.
- paulfri 3mo agoSeattle and its surrounding cities have among the highest minimum wages in the entire world (~$22/hour). You're maybe not renting a studio apartment by yourself but it is far from destitution.
- mschuster91 3mo agoA full-time job should allow at least for a moderate place of living alone, otherwise it's not a minimum wage.
- tzs 3mo agoYou can get a pretty decent 1 bedroom apartment in the U district of Seattle on $22/hour, such as [1]. [1] https://collegeplaceapartments.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals/29302 https://collegeplaceapartments.managebuilding.com/Resident/p...
- FireBeyond 3mo agoI mean it's still rough if you want to live close to downtown, but it's also $21.30/hr and going to go up in 2027.
- oulipo 3mo agoWhen a Mayor does more for the citizen than the government...
- Cyclone_ 3mo agoWhat do you mean? The mayor is part of the government.
- kombine 3mo agoI remember trying to cancel NYT subscription a few years back and it was almost impossible. I didn't expect it from such a reputable establishment.
- bertil 3mo agoAs someone who doesn’t live in the US, it was hilariously impossible: you had to call on the phone a number in New York, which never picked up, so you had to pay hours of internal call, or send a fax, something I hadn’t done in two decades… Thankfully, I had a bank that used technology from this century, including a disposable credit card number. I stopped paying and that lead them to them calling me.
- jonathanlydall 3mo agoThis is where getting it via Apple’s App Store is nice for consumers. I (a non-American) had a NYT subscription through the iOS app some years back and cancelling it (like any other subscription through the App Store) was as as simple as: - Open Settings - Tap my account - Tap Subscriptions - Tap the New York Times option (or whatever it’s called) - Tap Cancel While the gate keeper aspect of Apple may not be good in many ways, at least we get this kind of benefit from it.
- everybodyknows 3mo agoDoes buying through the Apple store also get you access to the web site (in case you're disloyal enough to also use non-Apple hardware)?
- jonathanlydall 3mo agoI can’t recall for sure, maybe.
- phyzome 3mo agoI ended up having to dispute credit card charges from Patreon because I couldn't solve captchas needed to log in or to talk to support. I won, but it was an annoying process, and now I use disposable/virtual cards.
- Animats 3mo agoThat's pretty much standard in the EU. Nice to see the biggest city in the US catching up.
- jjuhl 3mo agoWow, only in the US. In every other country, this is not a problem.
- mi_lk 3mo agoJust want to add to the pile that The New York Times is notorious for its unsubscription shenanigan
- jazzyjackson 3mo agoAnything Condé Nast too, which is pretty much everything. Nice office in the World Trade Center tho so they’ve got revenue figured out.
- sandcat_ 3mo agoFor what it's worth, I just tried cancelling my NYTimes subscription to see if it was still as bad as I'd remembered, and aside from desperately begging me not to leave, it was quite simple. No need to contact support. I wasn't planning to go through with it, but I still got a nice discount for the next year, so.. thanks!
- dredmorbius 3mo agoAre you in California, or another locale with protections against difficult cancellation procedures?
- ciabattabread 3mo agoNew York State passed a law last year that makes cancellations easy.
- sandcat_ 3mo agoDon’t think so. I’m in BC, Canada.
- aubanel 3mo agoProbably a great decision, but why/how can it be decided at a local level by a mayor, instead of a federal level?
- ezfe 3mo agowhy: because the federal level is not doing it how: by declaring it a law in that area
- readthenotes1 3mo agoAnd yet an executive action is not a law. It's a dictate. Course, one should never underestimate the value of a benevolent dictator...
- ezfe 3mo agookay, I apologize for using the word law. However, that doesn't mean they cannot ban it by executive action.
- woodruffw 3mo agoI don’t think it would be a federal concern, but a state one. However, in this case it’s because NYC law is typically allowed under NY state law to be stronger (but not weaker) than any corresponding state law.
- nonethewiser 3mo agoNY law already requires easy cancellation https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/527-A?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/527-A?utm_sour...
- woodruffw 3mo agoYeah, this is why I highlighted “stricter, but never weaker.”
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- lifeisstillgood 3mo agoThis is really a banking / credit card thing. CC suppliers put a lot of effort into packaging recurring subscriptions for their businesses because … people forget to cancel. So the real leverage here is not go to each individual website to one click cancel, but just cancel the direct debit / subscription from in your banking or credit card app.
- SkipperCat 3mo agoThis is what legitimate government looks like. Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power. While this may be a trivial issue, being able to cancel a gym or newspaper subscription, it sends a signal. Companies need to view customers as partners in a business transaction and not objects to be exploited.
- amazingamazing 3mo agoLol wait for enforcement before declaring victory
- gib444 3mo agoRight! Some British media / reddit 'users' did the same over-the-top congratulatory puffery for some laws passed in the UK. Like hello, Parliamentary supremacy and a whopping majority, the Lords who will at most suggest a few tweaks for anything that's been sold well, a Prime Minister who was a Barrister - passing laws is the easy part! Call something the Renter's Rights Act for example and people lose their minds falling over congratulating the Government and Parliament before it even passes. (In defence of some of our media, they did write one or two articles about all the people who got kicked out prior to the law coming into effect - just a couple of weeks before it coming into effect...) We're software devs - we should know writing code (particularly now) is frequently the easy part. Tests, deployment, versioning, monitoring, logs, effect on revenue etc, bit trickier.
- jafo1989 3mo ago> Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power. Who is deceiving who now? And I'm not sure who is in power here...
- ianmarcinkowski 3mo agoI have similar feelings. I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? Normal people have very little say over the politicians that govern them in larger electoral regions like states or provinces, and maybe this can signal to other levels of government that they should implement similar rules... If it works.
- aizk 3mo agoCompletely sensible legislation in my eyes.
- taeric 3mo agoIs NYC the first just because every city in California does it by state rules? I'm confused.
- warumdarum 3mo agoI think there should be a day (e.g. Sylvester), where all subscriptions auto end and renewal should be a proactive choice by the user.
- morkalork 3mo agoI don't understand because I'm not American but how does New York the city have such powers? At least where I am, cities aren't really "real" in that they are constructs the provincial government creates (and can uncreate). A city here could never make such a ban.
- SpicyLemonZest 3mo agoCities are similarly not "real" in the US, but there's a strong tradition of local governance, so some states (including New York: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/MHR/10 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/MHR/10) issue blanket authorization for any city to pass any law that doesn't contradict the state's general laws.
- jsrozner 3mo agoAnd then a million private equity, venture capitalists, management consultants, and other aspiring grifters cried out in terror. Hopefully they stay silenced.
- dgudkov 3mo agoHow about banning the most deceptive practice that is advertising prices without taxes?
- mc32 3mo agoIf taxes were uniform across geography (political boundaries) you could argue that, but as it is, taxes are not uniform.
- wpm 3mo agoThe store is uniform across geography, in the sense that it doesn't move and a system within the store is capable of calculating the taxes. If there was a simple flat "10% sales tax" on every single item in a store, the store could simply print price tags with that included. Marketing materials posted in the store could have the advertised price slapped on a sticker by the store too. The issue is really that taxes in most places are not uniform in application, not necessarily just because of geography, but also all of the specific carve outs and exceptions and so on that America tends to have, e.g., SNAP and WIC often don't pay sales tax. So its actually hard to know what someone is going to pay without communicating with them personally beforehand.
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- mancerayder 3mo agoBe careful of Paypal! Go info your subscriptions section and check it out - there's a decade of past ones, including companies in the grave. Some aren't, like Evernote, which renewed automatically for a year on an old email I don't have access to.
- DANmode 3mo agoDoesn’t everybody want random db tokens that represent authorization to charge their credit card account stored on major platforms like PayPal and Netflix? No? Tough shit!
- bradley13 3mo agoRequiring companies to state the actual price you will pay? Makes total sense. What I don't understand, is why thus is not already the case. Why do hidden fees not fall under deceptive advertising, which is already actionable?
- jaimex2 3mo agoSo this is the end of the New York Times I guess?
- paulbjensen 3mo agoFantastic, this is brilliant. I have tried to cancel a newspaper subscription in the UK a few times, which is only possible by telephone, and they have a serious churn-reduction program in place where I end up getting a major discount on the subscription.
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- EasyMark 3mo agoWhile this is good, I wish California would do it. It will never happen under a MAGA regime since the rights of corporate persons override those of real persons.