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Gyms around the country are about to lose their collective minds.

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I’m pretty amazed that this rule was actually passed.

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a final rule called “click to cancel,” which says online subscriptions should require the same amount of clicks to end as they do to sign up…

Wow.

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So all of us are hoping this also includes gyms. Please tell us this includes gyms.

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The Economist’s entire business model just went bust.

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I really hope there’s better language in this bill than “as many clicks as it takes to sign up”. You already know all that will get us is a longer sign up process that’s less confusingly presented. As long as it’s theoretically possible to cancel in the same amount of clicks then it doesn’t matter if it’s so intentionally awkward to pull off that hardly anyone can figure out how to do it.

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It still takes 1 click to cancel, but the button is 1pt text and randomly bounces around the screen

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The cancelling process is easy! Just one throw to hit the cancel space on the Lucky Wheel!

Step right up! And make sure your Wii remote strap is fastened securely!

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I guess it’s less ambiguous than ‘easier’ but I’m curious what we’ll actually get (from companies like Adobe).

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it’s already as easy as cancelling the card number I gave them.

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Sure, but the point is the whole situation shouldn’t be adversarial.

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