Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge

Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by cataphract on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:21PM (#20286414)

Reminds me of a website that used a random number generator for the "<n> persons are looking at this right now". The random number would be stored in Redis for some time so it wouldn't go randomly up and down upon refresh, at which point it would be obviously fake.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by HelloNurse on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:01AM (#20293045)

Candy Crush Soda Saga does it with microtransactions. The game is a puzzle in which you need to do something in a limited number of moves and on defeat screens there are notices along the lines of "420455 people bought extra moves to beat this level".

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by julianlam on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:12PM (#20286970)

Seems like a waste of redis' capabilities, when localStorage is much easier to implement for something like this.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by desas on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:17PM (#20287642)

As a user I can see what you've put in my local storage and create a pr problem.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by eridius on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:03PM (#20288584)

Also if it's in localStorage then opening the same site on two devices would show very different numbers and quite obviously be fake.

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