Consumers have spent half a billion pounds in the last year on subscriptions that renewed automatically without them realising, Citizens Advice has warned.
The charity is calling for a ban on subscription auto-renewals after finding that many had been lured in with a free trial and then forgotten to cancel.
Consumers in the UK spend more than £300 million a year on unused subscriptions, with 82% of those paying out on one reporting that it had renewed automatically, the Citizens Advice found.
