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The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon

By Monica Nickelsburg
Published September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM EDT

This week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.

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Monica Nickelsburg
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