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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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 4 points 18 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.