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human
I believe subscription services like Netflix and the NY Times should be legally required to allow consumers to buy memberships that don't automatically renew. CMV

There are plenty of subscription service websites out there where you get access for a month at a time.

Some of these are entirely reasonable (Netflix, Hulu, The NY Times and other content sources) but some are one time use websites (Westside Rentals for apartment hunting, LinkedIn and other job search websites, etc.)

Across the board, when you pay for a month it automatically renews the next month and so on until you explicitly cancel the service. It is described as a time saver, but people often forget to cancel when they're done with the service, and are forced to pay for a month they didn't use.

I think companies should be legally required to offer subscriptions that end on their own after a month and that require action to renew them instead of to cancel them.

EDIT: For clarity, I think manual renewal should be offered as well as automatic renewal, not instead of it, and that the price should be required to be the same for both options.
gpt
You agreed to the terms of the contract that included an auto renewal. If you don't like it, don't agree to it.  Freedom to contract is a pretty big deal in contract law so its rare to allow laws to tamper with contracts.