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An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost

Australia's Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […] This story continues at The Next Web

An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost

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Australia's Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints.

The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Australia's Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […] This story continues at The Next Web

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