FTC sued Amazon for luring users into subscribing to Prime members and making it difficult to withdraw their subscriptions later.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Snailwang for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, June 22 (Xinhua)-- the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of luring users to sign up for Prime membership services, while it is difficult for users to unsubscribe later.

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, FTC accused Amazon of deceiving millions of users into subscribing to Prime services without their explicit permission. Amazon has also set up a tedious and complicated process to unsubscribe, deliberately making it difficult for users to unsubscribe.

In the lawsuit, FTC also cited allusions about the Trojan War, using "Iliad Flow" to describe the difficult problem of withdrawing bookings.

FTC thinks Amazon generates $25 billion a year from its Prime subscription service by setting a high threshold for unsubscribing. (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 179.5 billion yuan).

"Amazon not only frustrates users, but also costs them a lot of money by deceiving and luring people into regular subscriptions without their consent," Lina Khan, chairman of FTC, said in a statement.

Amazon Prime costs $139 a year in the United States and has more than 200 million members worldwide.