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Comment by thanatos519

5 days ago

Here in the Netherlands, via my bank I can list all of my pre-approved transfers and block them. I'm pretty sure every bank here is required to support this. PayPal also has this feature.

I recently had to cut down on expenses starting with extraneous subscriptions and charitable donations, of which I had dozens. Many ad a click-to-cancel or at least fill-out-a-form-to-cancel process, but some of them said 'call us'. Then I discovered that I could cut them all off from my side!

I got a few 'hey your donation stopped' messages, and answered the first ones, but they all eventually went away.

Be careful there. You can block further payments, but that won't necessarily cancel your subscription.

You may still be responsible for the payment, and may need to pay collection fees as well at that point.