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What's a subscription trap?
A subscription trap is when a company makes it difficult to cancel a recurring payment for a service. You might sign up for a free trial, forget about it, and then find yourself paying monthly without realising or easily being able to stop. The new rules aim to make cancelling much simpler.
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