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 “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a federal appeals court just days before it was set to go into effect.