I purchased an Xbox Series X out of some misplaced sense of nostalgia for the 360 and because I needed a 4K player. At the time you could still do the trick where you load up on Xbox Live Gold and then convert it to Game Pass Ultimate cheaply.

I signed up for it and then made absolutely sure to disable any autorenewing settings everywhere I could. I remember seeing something to the effect of “Your subscription will expire 2/2026 and will not renew.

At the time I still trusted Microsoft a little, but I made sure to use a one time use credit card number, just in case.

Lo and behold, I just got this email:

there is only one ad and one video visible

Conveniently for those liars and cheats at Microsoft, somehow in the intervening three years autorenew got turned back on. Oopsie whoopsie sowwy 👉👈!

I don’t know how this isn’t outright fraud.