Has been discussed many times in this forum. Perhaps the most recent: Automatic subscription renewals should be "opt in not "opt out". Is there enough support for Choice to start a campaign to outlaw automatic renewals?
As an example of where consumers would whine incessantly if no automatic renewal … imagine that you are doing the right thing and paying for an email address outside of your ISP; imagine that there is no automatic renewal because the government has outlawed it; imagine that due to various distractions you fail to renew explicitly in time. So you lose access to your email address, and so many other things come crashing down that are dependent on the email address. (Or, replace email service with mobile phone service. Same deal.)
