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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: 5, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday February 26 2024, @09:58PM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday February 26 2024, @09:58PM (#1346397) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 27 2024, @03:05PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 27 2024, @03:05PM (#1346482) Journal

    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.

    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

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday February 28 2024, @08:53PM (#1346708)

    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.