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This is a dark pattern akin to booking.com, to create time pressure for you, not provide actual value. If the latter were true, then sometimes it should say "Y
by clon 9y ago
This is a dark pattern akin to booking.com, to create time pressure for you, not provide actual value.
If the latter were true, then sometimes it should say "You are the only one looking at this hotel. Take your time!"
But no. Travelling to the most obscure places across Asia I have NEVER seen anything but hordes people looking at my hotel in Kampong Cham. Probably different dates too.
I am willing to bet it is derived from /dev/urandom adjusted to the size of the establishment.
- bauerd 9y ago>Travelling to the most obscure places across Asia I have NEVER seen anything but hordes people looking at my hotel in Kampong Cham Haha, this is so relatable. Not a long time ago I arrived at my "high in demand, better book RIGHT NOW" guesthouse somewhere in Mondul Kiri Province and had to wake up personnel in their hammocks. Turns out they had no bookings for some days …
- rockostrich 9y ago> This is a dark pattern akin to booking.com, to create time pressure for you, not provide actual value. It's only a dark pattern if the number is bullshit. If the number was accurate then it would be a helpful feature, especially if they also took into account conversion ratios on that route and gave the user a real time table for how long they could realistically wait before booking the flight/hotel.