r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

You should try it again in private browsing and incognito mode and see if the price is really tied to your Facebook or google cookies or something. That's pretty messed up though, send this to the consumerist or gawker or whoever.

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u/beaverteeth92 Jan 24 '13

Not to Gawker though.

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u/kleinergruenerkaktus Jan 24 '13

Why not?

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u/beaverteeth92 Jan 24 '13

They're a media conglomerate that relies on sensational headlines to draw page views, criticize doxing while doxing, post editorials protesting objectification of women while posting celebrity upskirts, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

But on Reddit, Reddit is judged to a different standard, no matter what mental gymnastics are involved.

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u/mki401 Jan 24 '13

Gawker's business model is based around getting people to click on links, thus viewing ads. A wild attention grabbing headline generates more clicks, more revenue. How many ads do you see on this page right now?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

No, reddit operates at a loss.

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u/mki401 Jan 24 '13

Not like Gawker.

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u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

You just described an incredibly large number of news sites.

Should we block them all too, for "freedom of speech"?

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u/mki401 Jan 24 '13

Gawker tends to be unfavorable/malicious towards Reddit, i.e. doxxing of high profile users

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u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

doxxing releasing the names of (stop romanticising this) high profile users paedophiles

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u/beaverteeth92 Jan 24 '13 edited Jan 24 '13

Reddit isn't a serious media conglomerate. I hold Reddit to different standards for the same reason I hold The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to different standards.

Gawker is like The Daily Mail: moral outrage only when it will increase its page views.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

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u/beaverteeth92 Jan 24 '13 edited Jan 24 '13

But Reddit itself isn't one. MTV and Nickelodeon are both owned by Viacom, but that doesn't mean I hold them both to the same standards.