{"id":141,"date":"2005-06-08T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/08\/we-have-a-special-price-for-you\/"},"modified":"2005-06-08T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:11:17","slug":"we-have-a-special-price-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/08\/we-have-a-special-price-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a <em>special<\/em> price for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecommerce sites use your personal info to charge you more. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/003641.php\">article<\/a> on the EFF site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CNN has a report detailing an unsavory practice euphemistically called &#8220;price customization.&#8221; In short, websites examine the web data you automatically shed (cookies, IP address, etc.) so they can charge you a different price for a product or service depending on your &#8220;identity&#8221; and shopping habits.<\/p>\n<p>The article cites &#8220;a retail photography Web site charging different prices for the same digital cameras and related equipment depending on whether shoppers had previously visited popular price-comparison sites&#8221; and &#8220;one [Amazon] buyer [who] deleted the electronic tags on his computer that identified him as a regular customer and noticed the price of a DVD changed from $26.24 to $22.74.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecommerce sites use your personal info to charge you more. From the article on the EFF site: CNN has a report detailing an unsavory practice euphemistically called &#8220;price customization.&#8221; In short, websites examine the web data you automatically shed (cookies, IP address, etc.) so they can charge you a different price for a product or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}