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Lawsuit Claims Tinder and Hinge Are Designed to Get Users Hooked

posted by hubie on Monday February 26 2024, @10:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the infinite-loops-are-baaaad dept.

DannyB writes:

Addicted to swiping right? Lawsuit claims Tinder and Hinge are designed to get users hooked.

A new lawsuit claims that dating apps Tinder and Hinge are designed to addict users and lock them into a perpetual loop.

If you're swiping on dating apps for hours, you're not alone — and a new lawsuit claims it's by design.

Dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge are intentionally addictive, a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Valentine's Day claims.

Hidden algorithms push users to stay on the apps and "gamify dating" — counterintuitive to the apps' intended purpose to help people find connections and form relationships, six plaintiffs contend in the lawsuit.

[....] "The lawsuit is a bit absurd, if I'm honest," psychologist and relationship coach Jo Hemmings told The Washington Post, adding that "responsibility lies in the hands of the user," not the apps or developers.

In the future someday people might venture outside and date actual humans in person.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:12PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:12PM (#1346300)

    Apps have notifications?......

    .... I'm half-shocked. Like, you don't turn those off immediately? Apps never send me notifications. Maybe two, the messaging apps that I use to actually talk to people. Every other app's notifications are turned off the moment they create the first one.

    Like.. notifications? from an app? it's so alien to me that I just typed a reply about it.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:55PM (#1346302)

    .... And that's why the polyamorous weirdo is getting laid and not you.

  • (Score: 2) by Ox0000 on Monday February 26 2024, @02:23PM

    by Ox0000 (5111) on Monday February 26 2024, @02:23PM (#1346306)

    I fall in the same bucket as you.
    Technology is like animals: they needs to be domesticated before they can be useful. Mine get their vocal cords yanked as soon as I (have to) acquire them.

    Or to put it in the words of Arrested Development: my phone is where apps are neither seen nor heard.