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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket (fortune.com)
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Delta has a long-term strategy to boost its profitability by moving away from set fares and toward individualized pricing using AI. The pilot program, which uses AI for 3% of fares, has so far been “amazingly favorable,” the airline said. Privacy advocates fear this will lead to price-gouging, with one consumer advocate comparing the tactic to “hacking our brains.”

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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I have an idea for a business: a browser with vpn. the catch is that the vpn connects to the poorest areas of the country you live in, and the browser reports your machine as the most crappy thing that can browse the web - which should result in low, low prices everywhere!

[–] eecobb@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

i know it's not that easy, i'm quite paranoid about my trackability, but running that browser in a small VM would be an option.

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