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Surveillance "Personalized Pricing" To Gouge Customers All of Their Money. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It does matter because:

it makes my brain happy to come up with ways to beat it
beating the algorithm will reduce prices for the shopper (loss leaders will be used heavily for this I'm sure)
if enough people are cheating the system, it breaks the algorithm for everyone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I dunno. I have access to nearly every piece of digital media ever created and I pay no one, and yet, everyone else goes throughout the world and pays oodles on monthly services, all to avoid the "cost" of learning what soulseek is, what mutorrent is.

I guess I didn't read your final sentence in your OP, and maybe we're saying the same thing, but this just doesn't need to matter to most people here-- but yes, it continues as a means to squeeze money from the unresourceful.