• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they’ve signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There’s a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.