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.
Clear your cookies people
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.
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.
Device finger printing should be illegal.
It’s useful to stop ban evasion, but using it for personalised ads or prices should definitely be illegal.
Our government is run by sleeping 90 year olds. We should have a lot of laws right now that aren’t on the books.
Musk is suing right now to make sure they don’t make his illegal porn program illegal.
Well, also use privacy badger
Not using a Nazi supporting browser.
https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html
Then choose a different one that does the same kind of fingerprinting protection, that’s why I said like Mullvad.
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.
I absolutely adore IVPN and do highly recommend them but eventually switched to Mullvad for higher speeds. I also think IVPN isn’t IPv6 friendly if I remember correctly.
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.
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.
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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