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And I always assumed they use some sockets to sync that count from server. How dumb to just fake on the client side.
There's a product I've bought regularly at Amazon, it perpetually has 3 or less left in stock, but never goes out of stock. Also I was buying airline tickets and Delta told me there were just 2 left at this price for ... a plane nearly 70% empty.
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The only way out of it I can think of would be: if the site could prove that some number of people, greater than 45, were hitting that specific query on that specific page, then vacuously, they could say that any number of people between 1 and 45 were also looking at the offer. But then, why wouldn't they just display "at least 45 people" or the exact number? I'm struggling to find some way of doing this which could…
The source code literally calls Math.random. I hope that defence wouldn’t fly in court, even if accidentally true.
I would absolutely have made a few headless browsing bots masquarading as users just incase this scenario occurred
Look your honor the logs say other users, “people”, were looking regardless of our random function
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Booking.com is horrible to use in my opinion. It is handy but you need to ignore the dark patterns on every. Single. Page. Honestly it makes me want to use the website less, and does not urge me to buy.
I wonder about an app that just has phone numbers and a short description of hotels. If there are 50,000 hotels in the US, and you store 1K worth of data, that's only 50M. You could keep that on a phone no problem.
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.
Can't assume they don't have integrity. They might just have different moral values. I would gladly implement this any day. Its not illegal.
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.
Can't assume they don't have integrity. They might just have different moral values. I would gladly implement this any day. Its not illegal.
wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gainFunny thing is that it works. 15% CR uplift in the last website where I tested it
Sellers of snake-oil and other fake "remedies" have been using this sales tactic--"your friends and neighbors have already tried it, look here, see this line of people ready to buy!" that are all plants--since the days of the horse-and-buggy.
Doesn't mean we should still keep lying to our friends and neighbors.
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Can't assume they don't have integrity. They might just have different moral values. I would gladly implement this any day. Its not illegal.
It is almost certainly illegal. The use of falsified facts in an advertisement is illegal.
That it mean not illegal ?
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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.
AFAIK Google takes this sort of thing rather seriously... if they ever hear about it.