HelloFresh will pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging deceptive subscription practices in California. Prosecutors accused HelloFresh of automatically enrolling customers in subscriptions ...

SAN JOSE — Meal kit maker HelloFresh has agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement in a consumer protection lawsuit for allegedly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions, ...

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Subscription-based business models have become increasingly popular in recent years. According to a 2024 Bango survey of 5,000 U.S. subscribers, the average subscriber has 4.5 subscriptions, which ...

Questionable practices have become common among sellers of subscription-based services. A new rule would have required sellers to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them, but it ...

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wants to make it easier to cancel online subscriptions. On Monday, he urged the Federal Trade Commission to finalize a “click to cancel" rule that would allow ...

The United States Federal Trade Commission tried to make it easy to cancel subscription services in 2023. The judiciary threw it out earlier this year, just before it was scheduled to go into effect, ...

What just happened? A court decision temporarily halted the rollout of the FTC's click-to-cancel rule last month, but the drive for greater transparency and simplicity for consumers navigating the ...

Fran Levy was anxious about the idea and set against it. Her husband is 99 years old. Interstate travel is not easy for him. Stairs are a menace. People want to hug him and shake his hand, creating ...

CINCINNATI — Breaking up with subscription services just got harder again. A federal court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's new rule that would have made canceling subscriptions as simple as ...

“Click-to-cancel” is canceled for now, but consumers have some options while some lawmakers make a push to revive the effort to make it just as easy to cancel subscriptions and memberships as it is to ...

Apple is expanding the capability of its In-App Purchase framework with a new retention messaging API. This means, for the first time, developers will be able to show offers to users when they go to ...