[devmor]

That's what I was thinking - it sounds welcome. I would love if every recurring charge I had required me to recieve a notification to approve it.

I have spent my entire adult life attempting to avoid subscriptions and only use services I pro-actively pay for, which has become rather impossible over the last decade.

Returning to that would be great! Of course, a large amount of SaaS companies would be very unhappy with this - recurring billing on customers who forget about the service is a major revenue source. There's an entire industry built around "not-quite-scamming" people in this way.

Lately I've taken to using whatever credit card I have that is going to expire the soonest, or a virtual card, and then not updating it on customer portals. In many cases, this allows me to use a different card to make a "one time payment" after the recurring payment fails, which prompts me to evaluate whether or not the service is still something I need every month.

[ryandrake]

Yea, my reaction was the same when I read the comment: Can we please have this in the USA, too? It should take my deliberate action to charge my credit card.

[deskr]

Imagine if the subscriptions were opt in every month. You'd get an email: "Want to extend your subscription by a month? Click here."

That'd be wonderful for consumers and terrible for shitty companies. But it should be that way.