• @turmacar@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Their footnote section is doing a lot of work.

    1 In some countries and regions taxes are included in the total price displayed. The total price including taxes is always displayed prior to checkout.

    They also either don’t know how notations work, or the AI they’re using to generate this doesn’t because it has a separate footnote with that same sentence later on.

    I would be thoroughly unsurprised if some EU or other regulation came into effect so that they have to do this, and now they’re taking credit for being consumer friendly.

    • @brandon@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      It’s actually a US regulation which goes into effect on May 10th. Most other booking sites should be following suit with something similar over the next few weeks.

      • @turmacar@lemmy.world
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        411 hours ago

        That’s awesome! Hopefully AirBnB doesn’t donate a million dollars to Trump for an exemption.

        I do kind of wish these things required some kind of disclosure instead of letting them pretend they’re super consumer friendly and don’t need any of that demonic regulation.