New York City's 'click to cancel' subscription rule takes effect, joining states with similar laws
"Negative option" subscription contracts — those that automatically renew unless consumers cancel them — have generated a growing number of complaints as their use has increased, according to experts. By generation, millennials spend the most annually, at an average of $1,215. The survey was conducted online in April 2025 by YouGov and involved 2,440 adults.
- ▪"Negative option" subscription contracts — those that automatically renew unless consumers cancel them — have generated a growing number of complaints as their use has increased, according to experts.
- ▪By generation, millennials spend the most annually, at an average of $1,215.
- ▪The survey was conducted online in April 2025 by YouGov and involved 2,440 adults.
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| Original publisher | CNBC |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/01/new-york-city-click-to-cancel-subscription-rule-in-effect.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:15:30 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T04:03:38.210Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T04:03:38.210Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qqg9wMShlUn6 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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"Negative option" subscription contracts — those that automatically renew unless consumers cancel them — have generated a growing number of complaints as their use has increased, according to experts. While these subscriptions are easy to sign up for, they can be difficult to cancel.Each year, U.S. adults spend an average of $1,080 on subscriptions, according to a survey by CNET, a media website focused on consumer technology. By generation, millennials spend the most annually, at an average of $1,215. The survey was conducted online in April 2025 by YouGov and involved 2,440 adults. The survey found that consumers spend an average of $205 annually on subscriptions they no longer use.
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