Le problème de la #surveillancepricing a touché #SNCF @groupeSNCF
Hier, j'ai consulté le site web de SNCF : le billet de train coûtait 44 €.
Aujourd'hui, je suis retourné sur le même site, le prix avait doublé à 88 €.
J'ai essayé d'effacer les cookies, même prix. J'ai essayé d'utiliser un VPN, même prix.
J'ai essayé un autre navigateur web, et le prix est redescendu à 44 €. Ils utilisent donc l'empreinte digitale du navigateur pour augmenter dynamiquement les prix.
Charnock
in reply to Strange Quark • • •You would imagine there would some sort of silo-extension that could be specifically written to circumvent this.
@strangequark
Strange Quark
in reply to Charnock • • •When you connect to their website, it downloads some JavaScript and says "verifying the device", which I take to be a lying, weasel way of saying, "fingerprinting your web browser".
I tried disabling that JS but then the site does not load.
FireFox has some fingerprinting protection built-in but it's clearly not enough in this case.
I need to do some research. But it shouldn't be up to tech-savvy users to figure out a workaround, it should just be illegal.
Strange Quark
Unknown parent • • •@Printdevil The privacy policy was updated yesterday. I suspect the text about dynamic pricing was there before and has been removed, but the cached search results have not been updated yet.
I have written to them to ask.
Strange Quark
Unknown parent • • •@Printdevil There is a chapter about it in the #Enshittification book by @pluralistic
He calls it "twiddling".