Let’s talk deceptive patterns, meet the roach motel: when it’s easy to sign up, but extremely difficult to cancel.
The sad goal, is to make it so tiresome for the users, adding friction and cognitive fatigue, that they give up on trying to cancel, and keep paying. It often also involves forced continuity, through auto-renewals, or hidden opt-outs or removal of stopping points in the user journey.
https://toddl.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-anxiety-and-shame-part-two/