• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    What is surveillance pricing? Are they like using cookies to subtley raise the price on thing you’re searching for?

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      2 days ago

      Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices on that day because you psychologically are more willing to spend

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          2 days ago

          Because we live in a capitalist hellscape and the companies that implemented these tricks were the fastest growing segment of our economy for like 15 years (esp after the 2008 crash) so the government turned a blind eye. Now they control the world and are able to literally buy politicians

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            1 day ago

            I’ve heard that if we vote, all these problems will go away. But every time I vote, there’s never an option on the ballets for “Guillotines”

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          We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there’s a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don’t tell you the price, or we tell you only the ‘highest price that nobody pays’ "