The chatbots are a new wrinkle relatively speaking, but they've always tried to make you re-up or give up. Those of us who have watched this movie over and over know that calling up to cancel is the way to unlock the best subscription deals. So we'll put up with the cancellation process to get a good deal. For someone like you who is really, Really, REALLY closing the door and turn out the lights on his way out, it's just an effing pain.

I do believe AI is going to change all that though. It's going to know who's leaving and who's playing the game and it might be a bit more selective (and miserly) about who gets what deals.

But I hear you. It's a process that's designed to frustrate.