So we took a family vacation recently and we had to drive halfway across America and what creeped me the fuck out was how we were getting such different prices on different phones while looking at the same hotel room on Priceline. For example I would look for a hotel in Chicago and find a room for a $180, then my cousin is also looking for a room on his phone and I look over and the same hotel room is $50-$70 cheaper. This kept on happening in every city we went to, like there was such a huge fluctuation between the prices one person would get on their phone and what someone else was getting. We noticed that the people with higher end Samsung phones were getting a much lower rate than those with cheaper phones. Have you ever experienced such price discrimination and is there really anyway to protect yourself from it? And do you think it’s ethical for companies to charge different rates for the same product? Should there be some legislation to protect consumers from this seeing as how AI is just going to make it easier for companies to price gouge consumers to the max.

      • sadreality@kbin.social
        51·
        9 months ago

        If you don’t use hardened browser, you leave a trail that uqniue enough to ID you across web.

        Facebook and google have scrypts monitoring your moves on most of the websites.

        They sell this info

        • squiblet@kbin.social
          4·
          9 months ago

          An uncommon browser setup is also distinctive, though. One thing to do is use something like NoScript to not allow FB, Google etc to run scripts on pages. But how many people do that, like 1%? So it’s another data point.

          • sadreality@kbin.social
            1·
            9 months ago

            No doubt it has huge benefit as does unlock

            Using a few different browser for different uses cases will limit data point and keep clean profiles.

            So there is that.

            No easy way to do it.

          • sadreality@kbin.social
            62·
            9 months ago

            Firefox needs to be configured.

            Librewolf works

            Mullvad browser too
            Maybe brave

            Tor too limiting for daily use

              • melooone@feddit.de
                3·
                9 months ago

                If you want to harden Firefox, use ffprofile.com. It makes creating a custom profile very easy, and it should have good defaults. This should provide you with decent privacy and also allows you to remove annoyances like sponsored sites.

                Or if you are lazy, use LibreWolf which, as far as I know, basically does just that, but preconfigured for you.

                For addons, I would go with: uBlock Origin, CanvasBlocker, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes.

                Finally you can test your setup with Panopticlick.

              • sadreality@kbin.social
                1·
                9 months ago

                Deff will need a cocktail of extension.

                Ublock privacy badger noscrypt

                But people do different combos depending on their needs

                However each one makes you make unique, so back got he same problem so can’t load up too much nor is it needed.

                • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Can you not set up to change the requested data each time you change sites? Or some other way of altering the print such that you arent the same print each time?