The Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule was adopted in October and would have required companies to disclose when a free trial ended and to make it just as easy to cancel as it is to sign up for a service, The Associated Press reported.

The FTC’s "click-to-cancel" rule would have required companies to make canceling a subscription as simple as signing up. But a federal appeals court blocked the policy days before it could take effect.

Days before a new federal rule that would make canceling subscriptions easier was to go into effect, a US federal appeals court has shot the proposal down.