In today’s digital era, music streaming platforms have completely transformed the way we discover and enjoy music. Among all the platforms available, SoundCloud stands out as a hub for independent ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. A ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have forced businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions, was blocked by a federal court days before it was set to take effect, the ...

The "Click to Cancel" rule was proposed by the FCC last fall to make unsubscribing from a service as easy as signing up. It was supposed to help consumers avoid things like this: "I want to cancel." ...

Have you ever found yourself trapped in a digital endless cycle, trying to unsubscribe from a service you no longer use? You click, you search, you even brave the dreaded customer service chatbot, ...

The 8th Circuit blocked the FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule over claims of procedural issues. The rule would have made it as easy for a consumer to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. While the ...