Post #1117614

2025-01-10 06:46 UTC

Have you had that &quot;Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription&quot; email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern. &quot;Switch plan&quot; just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want &quot;Turn off recurring billing&quot; and then &quot;Current subscription without AI&quot;. You&#39;re welcome. Please boost for others.

Replies (19)

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 2025-01-10 06:56

I actually wouldn't be terribly surprised if there was some legal noise about this down the line - the more I think about this, the more this feels like it should be illegal in some way - but that's not my domain. Just help me help others figure this shit out before it costs them unnecessary money.

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@timixretroplays@digipres.club 2025-01-10 07:59

This is not a cry for help, I'm aware LibreOffice and other alternatives exist and suggesting them to me does not help anyone fix this Edit: this was a foolishly optimistic thing to bother saying

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@pimento@kind.social 2025-01-10 06:57

@timixretroplays@digipres.club the 'cancel sub' button also takes you to the same screen

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@Bronwyn@sfba.social 2025-01-10 07:18

@timixretroplays@digipres.club oh man. Thanks for posting this.

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@svenscholz@mastodon.social 2025-01-10 07:22

@timixretroplays@digipres.club Please can you add ALT texts? I really want to share this.

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@abstractcode@eigenmagic.net 2025-01-10 07:28

@timixretroplays@digipres.club I wish I'd seen this last month when I was in Perth and could have changed my parent's subscription. I looked and couldn't find it, and was somewhat time constrained so breaking it wasn't an option. My father once thought his keyboard was broken because he wasn't reading the "this document is read only because the licence key for Word has expired" message (they'd been on holiday and not used the computer for some months). So despite his many other skills I am wary of doing anything that might leave his tech in a non-working state. (Also I suck at doing tech support for my parents. I have very little patience because THEY JUST WON'T LISTEN ARGH)

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@k1000@mamot.fr 2025-01-10 07:41

@timixretroplays@digipres.club use Libre Office ! M$ 365 is the past and forcing you to upgrade your hardware due to it's lack of optimization it is anti-ecological ! I use the same compu for more than 10 years

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@eobeara@mastodon.ie 2025-01-10 07:41

@timixretroplays@digipres.club So glad I don't subscribe (personally) to their products. If I was starting a company, I would go with @libreoffice@fosstodon.org and #Linux

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@tessarakt@mastodon.social 2025-01-10 07:44

@timixretroplays@digipres.club I'm sure my employer's IT purchasing department will figure that out, if the choose so.

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@tino76H@norden.social 2025-01-10 07:47

@timixretroplays@digipres.club or you just don’t use such Tools

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@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net 2025-01-10 08:08

@timixretroplays@digipres.club wow. and i'd wager they're still hemorrhaging money at the 60% premium

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@karmalakas@mastodon.social 2025-01-10 08:12

@timixretroplays@digipres.club wasn't Adobe fined for the similar dark pattern?

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@astraea@kolektiva.social 2025-01-10 08:31

@timixretroplays@digipres.club #Linux rules! Microsucks ;-)

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@brettm@goto.coiloptic.org 2025-01-10 08:39

@timixretroplays@digipres.club @Stratski@mendeddrum.org dude just use libreoffice for free

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@exkclamation@mastodon.social 2025-01-10 08:42

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 🙌

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@electron_greg@oldbytes.space 2025-01-10 09:00

@timixretroplays@digipres.club This is fascinating. Perhaps different territories have different options/plans. I'm in UK and our "Business Standard" package is currently without CoPilot as a sneaky add-on. I will keep a close eye on this tho. Thank you for posting about this.

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@yesterzine@topspicy.social 2025-01-10 09:03

@timixretroplays@digipres.club I always buy my M365 subs as codes from Amazon. It's usually about a third cheaper and of course I can make very sure which version I have.

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@vet_ingenting@mastodon.social 2025-01-10 09:09

@timixretroplays@digipres.club https://www.libreoffice.org/ Your private, free office suite LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice. It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organization.

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@http_error_418@hachyderm.io 2025-01-10 09:22

@timixretroplays@digipres.club this option doesn't appear in mine, perhaps because I'm in the UK? I of course do not trust that they won't try the same shit here, just hasn't happened yet

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