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In a move proponents say will save constituents up to $162.5 million annually, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other New York City officials on Friday unveiled a “click-to-cancel” rule aimed at ensuring people can end online subscriptions as easily as they start them.

Days after entering office in January, Mamdani signed a pair of executive orders, “Combating Hidden Junk Fees” and “Fighting Subscription Tricks and Traps”—his 9th and 10th mayoral edicts—to protect consumers and make it easier “for New Yorkers to know the real price of what they are buying and to stop paying for the services they no longer want.”

Following up on the orders, Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine proposed a rule “requiring transparent, all-in pricing that bans hidden junk fees, alongside a final ‘click to cancel’ rule that guarantees consumers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up for them.”

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 5 hours ago

Judging from the way people reacted to biden this will get him no points. I have stated that biden is the best president of my lifetime and people repsond with I must not have had many presidents. He had so many things which if not reversed or taken down were so good for me and most americans. How did people not like that!!!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any predictions for the New York Post headline about this?

Mamdani's anti-business agenda strikes again. Corporations left scrambling to reach projected earnings.

More like...

Mamdani's new woke anti-business agenda leaves thousands unemployed and threatens jobs of thousands more!

...since companies have entire departments devote to user retention for the sole purpose of making cancelling as difficult as possible

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can’t wait for the corporate cucks to explain how this just isn’t feasible

[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Not a corporate cuck, but how can this be applied in just one city? Seems like a law that sounds good but is ultimately unenforceable at a municipal level.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Its more about scale. NY is what the second largest city in north america? They can easily field a larger response than many US states with comparable laws.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

If companies can't accurately apply it in just one city, then they should apply it to a wider range that englobes that one city. Not that hard!

[–] SMillerNL@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s enforceable if you want to. The real question is if companies want to be evil enough to just ban NY residents over this, or if they just allow everyone to easily cancel.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the biggest, most powerful and wealthy cities on the planet?

That’s the point. Most companies will just comply by broadly implementing it, which helps everyone.

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago

Just like EU laws are only enforced for EU citizens, but impacts the entire world as it's easier to allow everyone the features they built to comply with EU laws

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s already a thing for California.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

And it WAS a thing nationwide thanks to Lina Khan. Then it got reversed thanks to Trump

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

We badly need this, too. I've been through several layers of run-around with T-Mobile after we switched carriers. They assured us that if we went through the process to port our phone numbers the account would be shut off automatically after the next billing cycle. But we kept getting bills. Tried to call and talk to someone, but they wouldn't let us access the account without a security PIN. Which we never set up. "Sorry, we can't help you." Finally went into the local store and talked to the manager there. It turns out that the last time they "upgraded" our family plan they granted us an additional line for free, which we never used. Since we didn't port that number it was still on the account, and they were still billing us for it even though it was never active. So after 3 months we finally got them to shut it down and close the account.

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago

California already does this with gyms. I love it.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mandani, policies you can subscribe to

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks to mamdani you can also unsubscribe just as easily should you want to.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Already did, just couldn't get them enacted. Still can't since I'm not from NYC.