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A straightforward answer would be air ticketing. It's well known they identify sessions and manipulate your options to give you a bad deal and them a good deal.
by halJordan 4y ago
A straightforward answer would be air ticketing. It's well known they identify sessions and manipulate your options to give you a bad deal and them a good deal. If there's an asymmetry of info that is being exploited then this is useful.
- c22 4y agoSo why would they deploy this technology on their servers?
- likis 4y agoThey wouldn't need to. From the article: "Oblivious Target Resource: The resource that is the target of an encapsulated request. This resource logically handles only regular HTTP requests and responses and so might be ignorant of the use of oblivious HTTP to reach it"
- wbeckler 4y agoI worked in this field and I am certain this is an urban legend. Do you know of any evidence of this "well known" phenomenon?
- labcomputer 4y agoI experienced this, waaaay back in the web 1.0 days. I forget which airline (maybe Southwest because you can't buy their tickets through a third party), but they would offer a pattern of low-high-medium prices in response to multiple searches. I was able to reliably trigger the pattern by clearing cookies. However, I don't think anyone does this today. There are too many online ticket agent (including ITA), so it becomes obvious when the lowest fare for a given (city-pair, flight number, class of service, airline) tuple isn't being offered.