John Oliver mostly just vents about the glut of subscription services

Compared to the topics Oliver normally takes on in these segments—last week, for example, was the debate over fetal personhood—this issue is significantly less nuanced. Companies have started selling subscriptions for anything from printers to the cruise control in your car instead of just selling them to you outright because it gives them the chance to collect money from you every month instead of just once. This is obvious. The solution to this is also more obvious than the solutions to John Oliver problems typically are. Companies should have to make it less difficult to cancel subscriptions. The Biden administration actually pushed legislation dubbed Click to Cancel, basically meaning that any subscription service that can be signed up for online must also have the option to cancel it online. (No more going to Planet Fitness with multiple forms of ID to end a gym membership.) But, obviously, the Trump administration stopped that from becoming law, though an alternative may end up coming. “It is frustrating that there is a tantalizingly easy fix to a ubiquitous problem within reach, and we can’t have it,” says Oliver. The solution to this problem really is as simple as pressing a button, “so I’d argue that companies should give us that fucking button. And if they won’t, they should be forced to.” Check out the whole segment below.