filiphillesland

The charitable carve-out is the most interesting part of this. In practice, charities rely heavily on passive renewals from donors who forgot they signed up years ago. That's not malicious in the same way a dark pattern gym membership is, but the effect on the donor is identical. Hard to justify the exemption on principle even if the motivation is sympathetic.

What's the legal theory here? Is the argument that leaked source code loses copyright protection, or simply that Codeberg is outside US jurisdiction and therefore harder to enforce against?

The virtual card trick is underrated as a consumer solution. Create a new card per subscription, delete it when you want to cancel. No dark patterns can survive that. The problem is it puts the burden on consumers to be technically sophisticated, which most aren't. And the average person shouldn't need a fintech workaround to cancel a gym membership.