2025-03-06
How to find and cancel your unused subscriptions
If your subscriptions are getting out of control, you’re not alone. I feel it too: I pay for news sites, video streaming, music services, online magazines, my cat’s special food, charities and lots more — and that’s not including the stuff I’m forgetting about. Companies love the subscription model because it’s a reliable revenue stream. On the consumer side, auto-payments are certainly more convenient than sitting down with a checkbook to pay bills each month like a homemaker in the olden times. But in exchange for that convenience, everything you signed up for slowly and silently carves away at your bank account each month, possibly without you noticing.
It’s true that signing up for something is far easier than canceling — that’s by design. The FTC pass [...]
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