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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Monday February 26 2024, @07:22PM (3 children)
This is going to legally-speaking brutally crush them in the lawsuit.
Think of the analogies that could be made, "I paid my Real Estate Agent to sell my house, but instead of selling my house they steered prospective buyers away as a documented corporate-wide policy to keep milking me for cash." Ever wonder why Real Estate Agents are paid by transaction instead of by hour or per diem, LOL?
Or imagine the analogy "I paid my stockbroker a commission to get the best price on selling my shares, only to find out it was company policy to never sell shares to string along the sellers to get me to keep paying commissions in the desperate hope they ever sell my shares."
They are just sooooo F-ed.
The only support they're getting is from legacy media which gets a lot of advertising money from them so they are rabid supporters.
My guess, in the long run, is the billing model for OLD will change to outright pimping, where it'll be $50, maybe even $100, to trade contact info for each 'date', not a monthly fee to string people along while intentionally never matching them.
Honestly, I'm not trying to bang them (I guess?), but if I could pay, say, $5 for an internet startup (aka scam) company to find me a local who likes board games and matches my minimal lifestyle demands, I'd be happy. I'm not too demanding, a beer is fine, no beer is fine, getting drunk until puke on the table is a bit excessive, I'm burned out on Catan and Dominion and MtG, etc. I have no interest in paying $2/month for the idea that they might match me up someday but their corporate policy is to never match a paying customer up if at all possible to squeeze as much money as possible from the addict's subscription. I'm honestly kind of surprised BGG doesn't have IRL matchmaking as a revenue stream.
People got money and people got needs, but trying to scam them as a middleman will result in legal issues sooner or later.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday February 26 2024, @09:58PM (2 children)
Western medicine works the same way. They keep patients ill but living as long as possible, never cure them completely.
I have never seen a person cured completely of illness, only treated by weak drugs to prolong the disease, sometimes for decades.
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 27 2024, @03:05PM
Keep in mind that neither you nor I have seen a person live long past normal human lifespans on any system of medicine. There are strict limits to what medicine can do these days.
Further, encouraging dependency on the medicine/practitioner is a universal conflict of interest no matter the culture or technology. For example, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang frequented a lot of quacks in his pursuit of immortality. Sounds like all he got for his troubles was mercury poisoning.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 28 2024, @08:53PM
Unfortunately, I agree with you completely.
Plenty of interest in writing a prescription, but they freak out if the patient loses weight or improves their diet because there's no recurring revenue stream.