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The problem is that there are still huge amounts of services with awful dark patterns out there. There’s an instagram gym clothing brand called Fabletics which is £55/month for their vip tier. They auto subscribe you with a purchase (and when I say buried in the fine print, I really do mean _buried_ in the fine print). To cancel, you have to do it between the 1st and the 4th of the month, and it’s a multi page form where every page is a confirmation that is designed to look like you have unsubscribed . When services are still doing this there needs to be some rules.



This is not a dark pattern, this is illegal. Even the US has introduced click-to-cancel recently.


I am 100% against dark patterns and yes, my comment assumed that it is very easy for the individual to cancel the service themselves.

I also think Kagi is great for doing this.

Punishing companies because they don't do this is another thing entirely, which is what the comment I was replying to suggested.




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