Over 10,000 hotels join complaint against Booking.com
Over 10,000 hotels join complaint against Booking.com
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Over 10,000 hotels join complaint against Booking.com – DW – 08/04/2025
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Genocide profiteers who accept Israeli settlement money are assholes, more at 10.
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The biggest alternative is Chinese Trip.com. Booking.com, despite its flaws, is still one of the European-based big companies that are successful globally
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Booking.com is owned by American Booking Holdings
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That platform should be open source/free/public. There's no reason they need over 24 000 employees to manage what is basically a listings website. They only succeed by meddling with transactions between two other parties, and their actual role is extremely limited. I just need to find the place and see price and availability, and the hotels just need to be shown to customers, that's it that's the need, everything else is just tech bro nonsense to squeeze as much as possible out of both customers and hotels. I'm glad they're a big European company but they shouldn't exist at all (same with Uber and all these other platforms).
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I have been using Opodo for a while, they are European and work well enough for most of my needs
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First I'm not sure why it's okay if it's a European company profiteering from ethnic cleansing, second Gotogate exists and is Swedish.
Edit: Turns out Gotogate doesn't do hotels.
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There is agoda.com which I used in Asia a lot but seems to work here in Europe. (I won't be booking anything in the US, so haven't checked.)
They're mostly based in Thailand but registered in Singapore. Neither is a shining beacon, but I've not heard of concentration camps.
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I tried to delete my account there for two or three months every few days. It never worked.
If you are in the EU write to their data protection contact that you demand your right to deletion under the GDPR to be upheld and otherwise would launch a complaint with your national data protection office.
Also make screenshots along the way, in case you need to escalate it to the last step.
I know this sounds tedious and it can be. But it can often help directly if the companies react or it helps building a case against them to get fined later.
I got some companies in trouble with GDPR complaints.
It takes some work but it's really fun.
Yeah, I honestly have given up and stopped caring. But if I feel like it, I will.