Tim 🎮Jan 10, 2025

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

Show threadKarmalakas
@timixretroplays wasn't Adobe fined for the similar dark pattern?
Jan 10, 2025 at 8:12amWeb
Show threadTim 🎮Jan 10, 2025
@karmalakas someone at Microsoft will have been paid to sit down and work out if this will still be a profitable move after the consequences that will come their way in a year or four for doing this. The fact they've done it means that person gave it the thumbs-up. Clearly, the threat of that sort of fine is just a cost of doing business and not any sort of deterrent, and I hope future consumer protection legislation works this out and is written accordingly.