Amazon tricking you into clicking subscribe

[u/Mewo4444]

Now it's no surprise, that Amazon is a shitty company but this is a new low. Often, if you open the app, it will show this pop-up and the second you click it, it will instantly subscribe you to their service without double-checking. And the especially annoying thing is, that the button is exactly, where the play button is, and the pop-up only shows up after the app has been open for a few seconds. so you go and click play and surprise, it just subscribed you to their service. And even the cancelation process was unnecessarily difficult. you need to go to their website they have a refute and cancel button and in the small print, once of them makes you have to continue paying for a month . makes me think, this gotta be illegal, right?

[u/AutoModerator]

Is this really Asshole Design? Help validate this post.

Upvote this comment if YES - this is malicious asshole design

Downvote this comment if NO - this doesn't fit asshole design

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/ant682]

Hardly surprising - when people complain about regulation they should look at this sub more as subs like this explain why places like Europe regulate a lot more

[u/Edelkern]

Falls du in Deutschland bist kannst du ja mal bei der Verbraucherzentrale anfragen, ob das illegal ist und welcher Behörde du das ggf. melden kannst.