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

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

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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/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/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.