Deceptive Patterns
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Apollo makes its hard to cancel it’s subscription by redirecting it to an unresponsive chatbot

Author
thedbeaudoin
Date
19 Sept 2023
Type
Hard to cancel

“Big time dark pattern by @MeetApollo when trying to cancel on their monthly self-serve plan. Cancel Plan button triggers a bot chat in order to cancel and then they don’t respond 😑 @darkpatterns”

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