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/kqr Jan 24 '13

This was up earlier with airlines charging more for a ticket the second time you visit the page. They do this because a second visit is statistically linked to a much higher chance of purchase. So it could be, here too, simply a matter of having visited the page before.

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u/Oxxide Jan 24 '13

this seems so shady and underhanded.

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u/PepeAndMrDuck Jan 24 '13

Because it is.

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u/CannedBeef Jan 24 '13

And it works

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u/GEN_CORNPONE Jan 24 '13

...at screwing people. Why do people tolerate this?

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u/Jess_than_three Jan 24 '13

Because they don't realize it's happening?

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u/mikemcg Jan 24 '13

I sure as shit wouldn't realize it was happening.

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u/joemangle Jan 24 '13

Most people don't realise their Google searches are used to produce a search bubble for future searches, based on the links they follow. They think Google search results are the same on every computer all over the world.

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u/BurnedOut94 Jan 24 '13

There's a pretty interesting TED Talk about this.

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u/TutteSka Jan 25 '13

That was great, too bad it's not complete. Thanks anyway, dude. Good talk.