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Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle accusations that the e-commerce giant tricked millions of customers into subscribing to Prime and made it tough for them to cancel.

The settlement stems from a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission filed against Amazon in a U.S. District Court in Seattle in 2023. The agency, which protects consumers from unfair business practices, accused Amazon of duping people into automatically renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions through “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs.” Amazon also made it complicated for people to end their membership, the lawsuit said.

A trial over the lawsuit, filed under the Biden adminis

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