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Sep 25, 2025

Amazon to pay $2.5B to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission which said the online giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships, and made it difficult to cancel after they did so.

The logos for streaming services Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus and Sling TV are pictured on a remote control
Jul 9, 2025

A ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make canceling subscriptions easier, is blocked

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a court days before it was set to go into effect.

Netflix
Dec 16, 2019

How streaming, diversity, #MeToo shaped TV decade of change

“Game of Thrones” was both an unprecedented achievement and old-school role model in the TV decade that’s rolling its final credits. Installments of the elaborately produced hit were doled out […]

Netflix
Dec 16, 2019

How streaming, diversity, #MeToo shaped TV decade of change

“Game of Thrones” was both an unprecedented achievement and old-school role model in the TV decade that’s rolling its final credits. Installments of the elaborately produced hit were doled out […]


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