{"id":963794,"date":"2025-09-23T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963794"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:58:13","slug":"amazon-faces-us-trial-over-alleged-prime-subscription-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/amazon-faces-us-trial-over-alleged-prime-subscription-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Amazon goes to trial on Monday in a US government lawsuit that accuses the e-commerce giant of using tricks to enroll millions of customers in its Prime subscription service and then making it nearly impossible to cancel.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s complaint, filed in June 2023, alleges that Amazon knowingly used designs known as &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; to trick consumers into signing up for the $139-per-year Prime service during checkouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Amazon goes to trial on Monday in a US government lawsuit that accuses the e-commerce giant of using tricks to enroll millions of customers in its Prime subscription service and then making it nearly impossible to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s complaint, filed in June 2023, alleges that Amazon knowingly used designs known as &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; to trick consumers into signing up for the $139-per-year Prime service during checkouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}