Re:How Booking.com manipulates users
by kappamax on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:56AM
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Just because they have the same parent company doesn't make them the same company imho. Pretty much like how the Ritz Carlton is not the Four Points, although they are both Marriott companies.
1. Priceline (this includes Booking.com, Kayak, Agoda, and others).
2. Expedia (includes Hotels.com, trivago, and others).
3. Smaller aggregators (such as lastminute.com).
4. Booking directly.
The dark patterns described in the blog post are used by everyone, including many hotels themselves, so you're never going to avoid them.