TIL that you can get much lower online prices if you use a local library computer. Another reason to hate retailers.

Lora Kelley took a trip to the New York Public Library for us and compared prices against a personal iPhone. The results? A box of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and a pack of toilet paper were nearly 20% cheaper on the library desktop.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/surveillance-dynamic-pricing-legal-groceries-tickets/

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    That doesn’t help anymore. These days they use device identifiers and IP addresses and all kinds of stuff like that to see if you’re the same person or not. I would imagine that in this case going to your own laptop or desktop would result in the same prices.

    If you really want to hide try a browser like the Mullvad browser that specifically resizes and changes things used for fingerprinting.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Device finger printing should be illegal.

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    Then choose a different one that does the same kind of fingerprinting protection, that’s why I said like Mullvad.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Heard good things about ivpn and am looking at them for my new one as my sub is running out shortly.

    Funny that vpns are banned here.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's simplifying things to the point of being useless. Seriously, can't we have just a bit of nuance?

    There are legit, actual neo-nazis out there. I don't have much sympathy for Daniel Berntsson, and he clearly has some shitty ideas and positions, but calling Mullvad browser a "Nazi supporting browser" because Mullvad's rich co-founder made a donation without telling the company is just conflating everything into a big muddy thought soup.

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    Linux's inventor said that AI coding tools are fine and helpful. Those tools are made by openai and the likes, which are run by some of the worst people in history, many of which are fascist supporters. Therefore, using that same logic, Linux is a fascist os that should be abolished.

    -_- Seriously. I wish people would use their own brains to think critically and logically through these paths, and stop echoing into the chamber.

    Edit.
    Mulvad is not a fascist company or product just because a co-founder used his own money for fascist things.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's hard to say, but they do call for ethnic cleansing or "remigration" of citizens. That means concentration camps. What the US is doing now but worse. They also have socialist policies. So by combining nationalist and socialist (populist) policies, they are kinda reinventing Nazism. They are a serious threat.

    It really is fucking sad because they were allies in the war against privacy, but you have to draw the line at ethnic cleansing.

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  • You're missing the point, library computers are used by a lot of poor people so those computers have cookies and other fingerprinting that makes companies think the users of those machines can't afford normal prices so they get even lower prices than if you had completely cleared your chace cookies fresh device and all that.

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    Aren’t you usually signed in to an account on a service where you order things? Like Amazon or instacart? I assume they don’t care if I’m at home or at the library? I’m still the same person.

    Or are these people ordering their cinnamon apple Cheerios from random online retailers where they don’t maintain an account and have to put in all of their card and address details every time? And even then I assume they track you by your card and delivery address, which I assume is not the library address.

    Maybe you could get a separate credit card, bill it to a PO Box, clear your cookies, go to the library to do your shopping, ship the cereal to an abandoned house or vacant lot in a bad neighborhood, and save 20% on your apple cinnamon Cheerios.

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