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There were news about that really happening a decade or so ago.
by ahartmetz 2y ago
There were news about that really happening a decade or so ago.
- bityard 2y agoYes, here's the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20141113121420/https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/if-you-use-a-mac-or-an-android-e-commerce-sites-may-be-charging-you-more/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141113121420/https://www.washi... It would be an amazing miracle if sites weren't still doing this.
- divbzero 2y agoSo I should really be booking from a logged out incognito browser on my Linux machine with VPN to a less wealthy region.
- lisper 2y agoSounds like a business opportunity.
- mywittyname 2y agoThen sell a the detection of such behavior back to the site owners.
- dageshi 2y agoI imagine they'd think you were a bot and you'd end up in a captcha loop.
- jigneshdarji91 2y agoSimilar report from Christmas 2024 about Uber charging differently on iPhone vs Android in India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/as-post-on-uber-charging-different-from-iphone-and-android-users-go-viral-company-clarifies/articleshow/116652498.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/as-...