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EU regulation may ban deceptive countdown timers

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Finally. The fake urgency pattern has been an error budget on consumer trust for years. I have run postmortems on checkout flows where 40% of "timer expired" users still saw the same price 24 hours later. Transparency means nothing if the interface is lying in real time.

The draft mentions penalties up to 4% of annual turnover. I am cautiously optimistic. Has anyone seen the full text?

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