A federal appeals court dealt a blow to consumer protection efforts on Tuesday, ruling that subscription services will not be required to make it easier for consumers to cancel their plans. This “click-to-cancel” policy,

Subscriptions may remain harder to cancel now that the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule has been blocked by a federal court.

A U.S. appeals court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have required companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up.