The FTC's click-to-cancel rule was thrown out in court, but more than half the states now have their own cancellation laws. Here's how to use them and stop the subscription bleed.

A federal appeals court has shut down the Federal Trade Commission's proposed "click-to-cancel" rule. Judges on the Eighth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals denounced "deceptive practices" but ...

The FTC says businesses can't give customers the run around when canceling subscriptions. Credit: primeimages / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission just announced ...

The new rule change will require sellers to make it just as easy for consumers to cancel a subscription as it was for them to sign up in the first place. Federal regulators have just finalized a new ...

Think an incoming pro-business federal government can take down the idea of Click to Cancel, which gives consumers the power to end subscriptions as easily as they signed up? Think again. At first ...

Over the past week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has raced go-karts, brandished a Chinese finger trap and delivered remarks in front of ellipticals to trumpet a new click-to-cancel rule — which ...

New York City has adopted the country’s first municipal click‑to‑cancel regime, with an effective date of October 1, 2026. The rule is broadly consistent with New York state’s amended Automatic ...

On July 10, 2026, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced the adoption of the Click-to-Cancel Rule (the Rule) — the first municipal rule of its kind in the U.S.

New York will become the first city in the country to require that consumers be allowed to cancel subscriptions for streaming services and gym memberships in the way that they signed up. Known as ...