How Retailers Use Personalized Prices

Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by firefoxd on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:26AM (#15525156)

Slightly related. I regret not having taken a screenshot to prove it, but oh well. A friend and I both open google.com and type weather. We are on the same Wifi, both using chrome, both signed in, and we each get our very own current temperature for the exact same city. Different by a few degrees that is. We hard refresh, we sign out, we clear cookies, still different on each machine.

With personalisation I wonder if they go as far as telling you how hot it feels for me as opposed to how hot it is.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by wallacoloo on Sunday October 22, 2017 @03:32PM (#15528487)

I'd be more inclined to believe your queries were just handled by different servers that had cached different sets of data. Seems more likely if you had different DNS settings than your friend, too.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by shostack on Sunday October 22, 2017 @02:02AM (#15525398)

How would they know how hot it feels for you? Have you given any input on that?

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by firefoxd on Sunday October 22, 2017 @04:00AM (#15525692)

I complain a lot about the weather near my phone, who knows maybe someone is actually listening for once :)

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