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Press · Andrei Tarnovski
Subscribing is easy, but quitting starts the ordeal. The online practices that caught the EU's attention
What it is
Quoted at length on why cancelling is harder than subscribing: effort kills completion, so companies remove every obstacle on the way in and some do the exact inverse on the way out — «a customer who stays because they like the service is loyal; one who stays because they cannot leave is captive. Two fundamentally different things.»