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tofiffe t1_jeefo73 wrote

Reply to comment by probablynotreallife in Privacy concerns are real. by sudobee

Imagine one day walking into a store. You walk past the shelves, as prices update based on what the store knows about you (what you browse on social media, watch on yt, ...). Lower the price to make you buy stuff you don't need, but they know you're going to buy. Increase the price if they know you'll absolutely need it.

No, that is not speculative, we have every single building block for this, it's just not implemented together yet.

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KevinFlantier t1_jeez6ar wrote

I will argue this already exists online. Especially in the travel industry.

If you are browsing for plane or train tickets you should always do it in private mode because those cookies are going to drive the price up next time you connect.

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probablynotreallife t1_jeelnut wrote

I wish them the best of luck trying to get me to buy anything I don't need and if the things I do need become prohibitively expensive then they're just going to lose one insignificant consumer.

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tofiffe t1_jeeuuom wrote

hard to lose a customer if everyone is going to do it

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probablynotreallife t1_jeeves2 wrote

What?

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KevinFlantier t1_jeez1aj wrote

The next store over knows how much the previous store was charging you so they're gonna practice the same price with a marginal placebo discount. In the end you've lost a significant amount of time swapping stores for a very negligible gain, and you've been robbed either way.

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probablynotreallife t1_jef27su wrote

You seem to have completely misunderstood what I was intimating. I was referring to moving on but not to a different store.

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KevinFlantier t1_jef2h7g wrote

Yeah but you need to eat at some point you can't just pass everything

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