Amazon will be paying $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) while ending a two-year dispute over allegations that the company had tricked consumers into signing up for its Prime subscription service and then made it hard to cancel.

CNN cited the agreement as stating that Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds to an estimated 35 million customers that were “harmed by their deceptive Prime enrollment practices".

The case is related to the lawsuit filed in 2023 under the Biden administration over the company’s cancellation policies.

“Today, the Trump-Vance FTC made history and secured a record-breaking, monumental win for the millions of Americans who are tired of deceptive subscriptions that feel impossible to cancel," said

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