Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

Can they please do this with at&t internet.

A great idea of a product is some sort of unified system for companies to correctly manage subscriptions. There needs to be standards for what makes a user flow acceptable or not when it comes to cancellations.

Did Shutterstock come out money ahead?

Is 35 million and the potential for future punishment a sufficient deterrent?

Adobe needs to be next. I had to cancel a card because that was easier than cancelling Creative Cloud.

If your business is only viable due to shady subscription practices then it doesn't deserve to be running, whether it's Adobe, gyms, or whatever.

It's a dead company walking anyway. It might be the final blow.

> Shutterstock failed to get consent to charge consumers’ credit cards before charging them for subscriptions

This sounds like it should carry criminal penalties?

Thank you FTC. Next, please go after some monoplies.

Pardon the pedantry, but I the current abbreviation of the price ("Shutterstock to pay $35M") should be "$35MM".