Amazon has agreed to pay what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called a "historic" $2.5 billion settlement after being accused of shady practices toward customers and their Prime subscriptions.

The FTC filed an antitrust lawsuit against the retail giant in June of 2023, alleging that it had enrolled millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent and then made the subscriptions exceedingly difficult to cancel.

"The evidence showed that Amazon used sophisticated subscription traps designed to manipulate consumers into enrolling in Prime, and then made it exceedingly hard for consumers to end their subscription," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement. "Today, we are putting billions of dollars back into Americans’ pockets, and making sure Amazon neve

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