Consumer Reports does the same thing.
If you subscribe to their online access, you have to agree to an automatic renewal. I specifically called them right after my initial subscription, since there was no way to subscribe, without also agreeing to the automated renewals — told them that I am subscribing, but I do not want automatic renewals, but after a year, they did it anyway.
On my print edition, I subscribed for a year, on the website in my profile for the print edition, I checked and it said no automatic renewals, and they did it anyway.
I called and they eventually reversed it and canceled my subscription.
But I was pretty upset that even Consumer Reports does this — it’s not just that they do automatic renewal, but they did it even after you specifically instruct them NOT to do it.
Consumer Reports, as I said above — you have to agree to automated renewal
https://ec.consumerreports.org/ec/cro/order.htm?INTKEY=I61HLT0