Grammarly reportedly spams all your users with 'unhinged' messages when you try to cancel
ksec · hn · 2026-09-23
An HN post links to an r/sysadmin PSA claiming that when one company tried to cancel its Grammarly subscription, Grammarly sent 'unhinged' messages to all of the company's users. The thread has become a discussion about how far B2B vendors will go with retention tactics, with sysadmins sharing first-hand experiences of cancelation flows designed as harassment.
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