Diet app subscription traps: how they keep your money

A weight-loss app offers you a free trial. You give your card details. Seven days later, money quietly leaves your account. You try to cancel, but the cancel button is hidden behind a chat bot. This is not a broad story about the whole diet industry costing money. That is a different article. This is the small, sneaky mechanics of how diet APPS trap your card — the free trial that auto-converts, the annual plan that is pre-checked, the 'you will lose your progress' threat. The honest truth: calorie counting and deficit math are free. Burnie does them free, with no card. Let us look at the traps so you can dodge them.