Practical, worldwide guides on subscription pricing, cancellation rights, and the quiet cost creep that happens when nobody's watching — written by the team behind terma.
A country-by-country guide to cancellation rights — EU cooling-off rules, US state auto-renewal laws, the FTC's click-to-cancel rule, and the UK Consumer Rights Act.
Nobody decides to spend €400 a month on subscriptions. It happens four euros at a time, until nobody remembers signing up for half of it.
A free trial has one job for the company offering it: get you to forget it's temporary. Here's how the mechanism works, and how to beat it.
The same Netflix plan costs a different amount depending on which country you signed up in — and almost everywhere, it costs more than it did.
Three genuinely different approaches to the same problem — bank-linked automatic detection, manual privacy-first entry, and scan-based AI with no bank access.
The mechanism that turns a trial into a recurring charge is now, in most major markets, something regulators specifically write rules about.
An unused subscription doesn't send you a notice. It just keeps renewing until something else makes you go looking. Here's what to look for.
Most people scan a statement for amounts that look wrong. The charges worth worrying about are usually the ones designed to look unremarkable.
Terma tracks subscriptions, contracts, and warranties by scanning what you already have — no bank connection required. Here's exactly what it does.
A year of Google Trends data on "how to cancel" searches — one service dominates so completely it isn't close, and the reasons are on the public record.
Roku raised device prices by up to 60%. A global memory shortage driven by the AI boom is quietly pushing up prices through 2028.