Deceptive Patterns
‹ All examples New York Times

NYT subscription takes much longer to cancel than to create.

Author
Darkpatterns.org
Date
7 Jan 2022
Type
Hard to cancel

“Cancelling this New York Times subscription took about 8 minutes. Most of the time was just waiting for the CS rep to respond in live chat.”

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