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How does this happen though? I don't even pay a single subscription, I can't imagine just signing up for loads and just throwing my money away.
Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they've signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There's a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.
A lot of them are set up to automatically charge monthly or renew annually.
Signing up once and forgetting to cancel. Check your bank statements, folks.