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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!
aproitzThey " #frame" You, wherever they can !
食 Shoku the Umbreon@georgetakei I've known for many years that you would be given higher airline ticket prices if you searched from an Apple device.
Louis A. M. 🇨🇦@georgetakei This has been going on for a while. I search for available flights to plan a trip, then they cost more when I book the flights (on the same day).
Nazani
HakeemGThe problem is that the politician going viral for this video hasn't done a single thing to stop it. She talks a big game about Democrats needing a BACKBONE 🚩, which is when I immediately knew to research her record. I'm sick of the trash talking do nothing leftists.
Mallory McMorrow's Cartoonish Cynicism
An influencer candidate assumes voters will never look to see how - or whether - she actually used her influence.
https://sirota.substack.com/p/mallory-mcmorrows-cartoonish-cynicism
Femme Malheureuse^^ HakeemG -> irrational agent provocateur attempting to gin up a circular firing squad inside the left...
While doing so from a Nazi bar.
*block*
Reck@femme_mal having your entire profile be about owning the dems is definitely odd. But the article he linked was pretty interesting.
@HeavyMetalWings It's not just their profile.
It's their poorly thought-out criticisms of Democrats in general, like the one attacking Bernie Sanders and AOC about data centers.
If someone wants to do the GOP's work, own it. Fly the freak flag.
And I'll block more quickly.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@femme_mal it's important to examine primary candidates closely - so we don't get another Fetterman.
David Sirota does good, well-researched work.
@flipper Uh-huh. They don't live in Michigan whereas I do.
MsNeptunium@georgetakei The truly insidious part is that this kind of thing rewards impulse buying and further encourages our societal lack of patience and tolerance for having to wait at all.
Chuff²And then there's the digital price tags stores are shifting too, while the immediate reason is the savings they get, I don't doubt they're eyeing the option of on demand pricing
iwein@georgetakei you stopped doing alt text again 🙀🙀🙀🙀🥹
qurlyjoe@georgetakei
This has been going on for years. Your ZIP (postal) Code will influence the prices you see when browsing online.
This has been going on for years. Your ZIP (postal) Code will influence the prices you see when browsing online.
Bill Zaumen@qurlyjoe @georgetakei At one point, years ago, some on-line company (maybe Amazon but I'm not sure) tried offering different prices to different customers. People found out when they cleared cookies and the prices changed. They may be better at hiding it today.
Such practices are really deceptive at best and fraudulent at worst - many people think they are looking at broadcast where everyone sees the same thing and that is not what is going on.
@bzdev
@pluralistic talks about all this stuff in his book, #Enshittification.
C_R@georgetakei This is also why so many companies want you to use their app instead of their perfectly functional websites - you can't install an ad blocker on their app, so it's easier to collect more of your data and behavior patterns.
Asterisk 🇨🇦@collimated_thought @georgetakei Welllllllll, you do have DNS-level adblocking so that's not entirely true. What they have access to with an app is your phone's sensors (there's no toggleable permission for this except on GrapheneOS), location, nearby devices, other apps you installed, etc.
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xs4me2Unbelievable, it is simply criminal…
_wes@georgetakei wait until you hear about how door dash drivers get paid.
Joe Alexander@_electro_druid @georgetakei (they don't)
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱Privacy might just save you a lot of money
Space WranglerPure evil. At some point I hope a smart CEO will leverage this data about their competitors to expose this behavior and attract customers by not doing these things.
Martijn VosNo honest "free market capitalist" capitalist would support this. People think a free market is an unregulated market, but that's not true; a free market is a transparent market that's equally accessible to anyone. No barriers to entry, a level playing field, and transparent pricing. This is the complete opposite of transparent pricing.
As you might have noticed, free markets are incredibly rare. Large corporations do everything to avoid it, because they have the power to manipulate the market to their advantage. That's why we need regulation.
Mason Loring Bliss@georgetakei This made me curious, and it turns out that Snopes has a lot to say about the battery charge. (Ha ha.)
De_Minimis@georgetakei Using Tor helps evade this while "window shopping". But once you log into you amazon account or what have ya or use the same credit card, you're done. Any track-able data-point really. But you got your quote.
John Crowden@georgetakei we have 2 laptops. Search on one then book on the other. Been doing it for years. Nothing new.
Rick d Card@georgetakei On some sites like amazon if you look for an item and check out the price and keep checking once a week or so the price will slowly drop (to a certain point) until you buy it. I tried it with a refurbished phone; started at $250 and I bought it at $159. AI will lower it to try to entice you and if you don't bite it will eventually raise it again. The price is also different depending on wages in your area.
WilliamBob@georgetakei -Canadian Tire(hardware and auto in canada) has electonic prices on shelves. Instantly changeable without staff based on sales, the whim of the Corporati, or perhaps your phone.
Magnus Ahltorp@WilliamBob How would they know how to match the price that you saw on the shelf to what they charge at the cash register? Because in the jurisdictions I’m familiar with, it’s illegal to say one price and charge another.
@ahltorp -?;however, sump pumps during floods-snow shovwl on the snow-any product they have could be surge priced.
@WilliamBob Yes, day-to-day price changes would work, maybe even within a couple of hours, but you’d have to allow for a person to see the price, stay a while, and then go to the cash register. Which means personalised prices (detection of phone) wouldn’t work.
Missingtale@georgetakei I've spotted this on flights and holidays, me and my wife have been sat next to each other on different devices getting different prices for the same holiday. We don't use that company because of that.
Sebastian Müller@georgetakei as far as I understand it’s prohibited in Europe
((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️🌈@georgetakei #Apple should prevent the #Uber #rideshare app from checking battery level, and other iPhone details!
Jörn Franke@georgetakei @pluralistic warns against this since ages, e.g. https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/#
or in his book on "Enshittification"
Ashwin DixitThis is out of the book "Being Digital", that Dr. Nicholas Negroponte ( Former Head of MIT's Media Lab ) wrote several decades ago.
At the airport, he is trying to buy a ticket, when he is told, "Dr. Negroponte, we know you're going to give a paid talk at this seminar. We know how much it's going to pay you. We know what the penalty for missing this talk would be, and what the cancellation would cost you. Now, let's talk about what you are willing to pay to not miss your flight."
Mr. Takei, please read my real-life whistleblower story. I was persecuted under Biden and then under Trump. Today, I am homeless and hungry in Tokyo.
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
Please boost for reach.
Arigatou gozaimashita.