{"id":36466,"date":"2022-07-08T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36466"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:35:44","slug":"amazon-to-drop-prime-cancellation-dark-patterns-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/08\/amazon-to-drop-prime-cancellation-dark-patterns-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Drop Prime Cancellation Dark Patterns in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/07\/01\/amazon-ends-prime-cancellation-dark-patterns-europe\/\">Natasha Lomas<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/22\/07\/01\/1825219\/amazon-agrees-to-drop-prime-cancellation-dark-patterns-in-europe\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/07\/01\/amazon-ends-prime-cancellation-dark-patterns-europe\/\"><p>The coordinated complaints about Amazon&rsquo;s confusing and convoluted cancellation process for Prime were announced back in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/14\/cant-figure-out-how-to-end-your-amazon-prime-sub-these-complaints-could-help\/\">April 2021<\/a> &mdash; so it&rsquo;s taken just over a year for the e-commerce giant to agree to change its ways.<\/p><p>Following the engagement with EU regulators, the<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_22_4186\"> Commission said today<\/a> that Amazon started to make some revisions to the Prime web interface &mdash; such as labelling the cancel button more clearly and shortening the explanatory text &mdash; but today&rsquo;s announcement is that it has agreed to further simplify the experience by further reducing the text so consumers do not get distracted by warnings and deterred from cancelling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GpEQ4OWNO4Y\">video<\/a> showing the steps.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/06\/google-considered-buying-epic\/\">Google Considered Buying Epic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Lomas (via Slashdot): The coordinated complaints about Amazon&rsquo;s confusing and convoluted cancellation process for Prime were announced back in April 2021 &mdash; so it&rsquo;s taken just over a year for the e-commerce giant to agree to change its ways.Following the engagement with EU regulators, the Commission said today that Amazon started to make some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-07-08T20:35:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"351f1506-a62a-4689-9847-1d7cb010f7c6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-08T20:35:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANR8VBqYqRomYRx18sBD3xg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,1447,1836,1927,96],"class_list":["post-36466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-dark-patterns","tag-european-union","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36467,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions\/36467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}