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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's fucked up. Why this legal?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

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' "

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Cookies and fingerprinting, yes

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I took would like to know as well.