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Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts by WWLink on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:47PM (#23704978)
Or they could stop spying on their customers and trying to figure out how to add dark patterns to maximize "engagement" and "conversion" lol.

I mean yeah, I get that if you inadvertently make the checkout button hard to find, you'll lose potential sales, but I don't think you need intricate data about what your customers are doing to figure that out.

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Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts by bduerst on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:57PM (#23709473)
Not sure about dark patterns, but you're talking about magnitudes of tens if not hundreds of thousands of visitors here.

Increasing conversion rate by even a few percentage points has huge revenue implications.

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