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Post by TeMPOraL »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #145
ARandomerDude wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shift the blame to the victim? Is "you shouldn't lie" really so controversial?

It isn't controversial. But we should teach people to think independently, rather than devaluing education and critical thinking. Why not have both? Businesses should have integrity and consumers should be able to apply a basic level of critical thinking. I don't think I placed blame on the victim, either. I'm merely pointing out people should think critically of what they read, because that has a lot of valuable app…

I think we should also teach people some epistemological self-defense. People caught on lying should be punished, hard. Lying to others is an inherently hostile act.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by GrumpyNl »

cameronbrown wrote: post #82
burk96 wrote: post #12

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Yes it happened to me, a hotel was priced significantly cheaper on Google and on their site initially. When the price went up I just called the hotel and the higher rate was their standard and only rate that they offered. The initial advertised price was never an actual option.

I work for Google. You can report fraudulent ads with the form here: https://support.google.com/google-ads/contact/vio_other_aw_p...

Google should do a better job at fraudulent ads instead of waiting for a consumer to complain.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by flurdy »

megablast wrote: post #127
poisonborz wrote: post #10

So some manager came up with this, tasked a PO, who tasked a team, and a frontend developer implemented it - and in this chain, in the end, everyone complied. I know it's not like murder, but especially in a field where it's so easy to hop into another job/project, one should have greater integrity.

> tasked a PO, who tasked a team, and a frontend developer implemented it - and in this chain, in the end, everyone complied You have only worked on big projects, right? This could be on developer. It could also be a FE change that was supposed to be hooked up to the backend, but went out early.

> It could also be a FE change that was supposed to be hooked up to the backend, but went out early.

Quite likely this. Passes all requirements tests. So follow up story to add real data is still in the deep frozen backlog. May get promoted to ready in year never.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by jakub_g »

FWIW: I got pissed some time ago about Booking.com and Easyjet doing this, so I created an adblocker filter list to filter out those messages.

I haven't really checked lately if it still works, but feel free to use and contribute if you want. It should work with ABP and uBlock Origin.

https://github.com/jakub-g/no-urgency/blob/master/no-urgency...

All you need to know to contribute is basic CSS.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #158
Kliment wrote: post #54

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Sadly that list doesn't answer the most important questions - do they have availability for a particular date, and at what price

Hotels have this thing where you can call and a human will pick up and you can ask them questions. Like do they have a room available.

Imagine being able to go to one website, entering a location and dates, and seeing availability and prices all in the one place.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by SifJar »

jakub_g wrote: post #164

FWIW: I got pissed some time ago about Booking.com and Easyjet doing this, so I created an adblocker filter list to filter out those messages. I haven't really checked lately if it still works, but feel free to use and contribute if you want. It should work with ABP and uBlock Origin. https://github.com/jakub-g/no-urgency/blob/master/no-urgency... All you need to know to contribute is basic CSS.

Related: Chrome extension specifically for this

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-stress-booking/...

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by aembleton »

dewey wrote: post #74
lifestyleguru wrote: post #59

In a mobile app one wouldn't even have a way to investigate this.

Why is that? You can easily look at the requests and see where the numbers are coming from. It's not as easy as right clicking in the browser but if it would be a normal Desktop app it would also not work like that.

Because they are being generated locally using Math.random.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by Gibbon1 »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #165
Gibbon1 wrote: post #158

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Hotels have this thing where you can call and a human will pick up and you can ask them questions. Like do they have a room available.

Imagine being able to go to one website, entering a location and dates, and seeing availability and prices all in the one place.

Imagine much of it is dark patterns and bullshit.

Re: 38 People are looking at this post right now

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #169
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine being able to go to one website, entering a location and dates, and seeing availability and prices all in the one place.

Imagine much of it is dark patterns and bullshit.

You might have a point there ;)

So you ring the hotel and the person who answers, if they’re worth their salt, tells you there’s only one room left / there’s a big convention on in town / everywhere else is likely fully booked out, and closes the sale.

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