In a move proponents say will save constituents up to $162.5 million annually, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other New York City officials on Friday unveiled a “click-to-cancel” rule aimed at ensuring people can end online subscriptions as easily as they start them.
Days after entering office in January, Mamdani signed a pair of executive orders, “Combating Hidden Junk Fees” and “Fighting Subscription Tricks and Traps”—his 9th and 10th mayoral edicts—to protect consumers and make it easier “for New Yorkers to know the real price of what they are buying and to stop paying for the services they no longer want.”
Following up on the orders, Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine proposed a rule “requiring transparent, all-in pricing that bans hidden junk fees, alongside a final ‘click to cancel’ rule that guarantees consumers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up for them.”
Mandani, policies you can subscribe to
Already did, just couldn’t get them enacted. Still can’t since I’m not from NYC.
Nice!
Thanks to mamdani you can also unsubscribe just as easily should you want to.
Can’t wait for the corporate cucks to explain how this just isn’t feasible
Not a corporate cuck, but how can this be applied in just one city? Seems like a law that sounds good but is ultimately unenforceable at a municipal level.
Its more about scale. NY is what the second largest city in north america? They can easily field a larger response than many US states with comparable laws.
Just like EU laws are only enforced for EU citizens, but impacts the entire world as it’s easier to allow everyone the features they built to comply with EU laws
If companies can’t accurately apply it in just one city, then they should apply it to a wider range that englobes that one city. Not that hard!
It’s enforceable if you want to. The real question is if companies want to be evil enough to just ban NY residents over this, or if they just allow everyone to easily cancel.
One of the biggest, most powerful and wealthy cities on the planet?
That’s the point. Most companies will just comply by broadly implementing it, which helps everyone.
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Any predictions for the New York Post headline about this?
Mamdani’s anti-business agenda strikes again. Corporations left scrambling to reach projected earnings.
More like…
Mamdani’s new woke anti-business agenda leaves thousands unemployed and threatens jobs of thousands more!
…since companies have entire departments devote to user retention for the sole purpose of making cancelling as difficult as possible
