"T i m" wrote in message
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:20:49 GMT, JohnP wrote:

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I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime -
but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime.

Similarly it's been fairly common that when addressing someone's PC
that was running slowly to find it had several AV and other tools
installed because the owner hadn't de-selected the offers of 'Free'
stuff in the process.

Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

Similar with all the extra tools, either downgrading them to the free
versions or uninstalling the combo versions (AV + FW) and
re-installing only what you want.

The only really crafty ones were those where they had a series of tick
boxes that used a combination of positive and negative wording to get
you to not opt out of stuff but still not really and issue if you read
them properly.

Some of the versions of AVG would install the full version even
if you had downloaded the free one and told it to install that.
You could downgrade after installing it to the free one but
that had to be done deliberately. Very dubious behaviour imo.