I don’t see any downsides or arbitrariness of this suggestion, I mean, there are some services I will use for one month, and I intend to use it for that month, but it happened before where I would forget to cancel it, and this has happened to other users too, by default, auto-renew should be off, I don’t really know any strong arguments that can go against this point, I mean, auto-renew can be useful, but there are many cases where it could be harmful and even though people do forget it, it might be a tiny bit deceptive in some cases.
And how about web-based services? Fingerprinting goes only so far. Good for statistics, not good for preventing people from a free trial.
You know you don’t have to even offer free trials, right.
I’m talking about a predatory practice that literally relies on taking advantage of people’s poor memories for profit and you’re all falling over yourselves crying about how if they can’t do that then people might steal from them