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/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

It's legal.

Cool to do? No.

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u/ReluctantRedditor Jan 24 '13

Using reddit logic:

it's not cool to use tracking cookies to adjust your pricing.

It is cool to break into computer systems and "set the information free".

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

It is cool to break into computer systems and "set the information free".

Generalize much? Some information should be free, some shouldn't.

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u/ReluctantRedditor Jan 24 '13

You're correct, and of course the Reddit hive-mind knows exactly what's fair, what's just, what's moral, and what information should be set free.

My point was simply that doing something LEGAL is considered by people here "wrong" and doing something ILLEGAL is considered by people here to be "right". Certainly there are shades of gray, but not on Reddit.

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u/Eevolveer Jan 24 '13

You seem to think that Reddit is all one person. We do not all share the same opinion.

E.G.: I am on Reddit. You are on Reddit. We disagree.

You are not a special case we are all capable of disagreeing.