A simple life hack for avoiding unwanted subscription fees!

Tony Wilson
3 min readOct 6, 2021

I spent the most of 2020 using two apps that I paid an annual subscription for…by mistake! I hope you are not familiar with this story…but I suspect many of you are…it needs a cool name like…’the annual subscription scam’ or something. Basically, it starts out like this, you see an app that piques your curiosity and you think ‘sure, I try for a few days’. You head over to the app store and download the app with a bit of excitement and expectation. A few moments later, as you are finishing up the installation, you get it…the subscription offer. I have to…

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Tony Wilson

Electrical Engineer & software developer. Interests — machine learning, augmented reality, exploratory data analysis. Creative writing (short prose/poetry)