i miss the days when cancelling a subscription would just stop it charging you but you keep the service until you would have to pay
Classic Apple. Gotta pump up that Services revenue, even if by taking advantage of dark patterns everywhere.
So many idiots use apple.
Statistically more idiots aren’t using Apple.
See, this is why you need to normalize your data before comparing. Lol.
“Free trial”
I think I have only seen that on Apple. Any other examples?
I think patreon also does this which is shit imo
YouTube TV did it to me
Disney+ does the same as far as I remember.
This is usually how FREE TRIALS work, though, and always has been.
No it hasn’t. Cancelling pretty much always lets you continue until you were due to be billed.
Not on free trials….as was said. It is typical if you actually already paid for a month and then cancel to have your subscription active till the end of the cycle.
You’re just wrong. I always cancel my subscription the second I start my free trials so I don’t forget later.
I haven’t done a ton of free trials, but the maybe 5 I have, this is how I did it.
I think this is apple being particularly shitty because most services don’t do that.
in fact, apple forces other services to not do that but have double standards for themselves
Pretty sure I saw it somewhere else as well. Don’t remember where, but I think there was option to cancel subscription and cancell reccuring payment. Pretty sure this is so they can silently take awau the more fair option later.
Not sure what the distinguishing line is anymore, I thought it was Free Trials but I just canceled my TV+ free trial and it’s still active through the full period. (a couple days)
Fight back with their own weapons: „hey Siri remind me on 00.00.2023 to cancel my Apple One trial“
Or revolut, oxygen and any other bank that provides virtual/burner cards. Everyone should be using virtual or burners with any subscription service, not only does it protect you from a leak, it also let’s you set a max amount and when the price goes up you won’t pay it without approving it and increasing your max tx amount.
Enshitification
Hey, another thread where someone is desperate to use that word!
It’s the “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” of Lemmy
Hey buddy, I’m desperate to do a lot of things. Lemme show you what I can do with a $50 bill…
-Attempts to pay rent and gets evicted-
Not this time, it’s completely expected that if you cancel a free trial that you’re not interested and don’t want it. It is not at all the same as cancelling a subscription that will ride out until the end of the period.
If you’re automatically charged when the free trial ends then you should absolutely be allowed to cancel a free trial so that you’re not charged and keep using it until the last day it was offered to you.
Free trial implies I don’t gotta attach payment to it. This is more like paying for your water bill and calling the first month free.
I don’t want to check this one but if you need a card on file to get your free subscription like basically everywhere else then this is an attempt to let you forget about the service and charge you at least once. Amazon prime’s free trial might require 50 fucking clicks to cancel but it will at least ride out the month.
Who would have thought that cancelling something cancels it? Incredible find, mate.
the idea was to sign up for the free trial, then cancel right away so that you don’t forget to cancel at the end of the trial. previously, in most cases, the trial would run it’s course and you could access it for the duration. Since companies rely on people forgetting to cancel (it’s the only reason anyone even has an apple TV subcription), they’re trying to make this simple life hack more difficult.
