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erronis

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2. Cory Doctorow and others have been arguing this also. Surveillance capitalism.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:17 PM

8 hrs ago

They are tracking every move you make, every time your eyeball gazes a few more milliseconds on a product on a page.

They know what your spending habits are and how much you want/need something.

The price presented to you is personalized.

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Prices in the Machine - An Emergent AI Threat [View all] Celerity 9 hrs ago OP

Look at the cost of PC RAM and how much that's increased. Initech 9 hrs ago #1

That's trippy cause I was pricing RAM yesterday thinking of going from 4*8 to 4*16 sticks AZJonnie 8 hrs ago #3

You're looking at DDR4 prices. Initech 6 hrs ago #7

Umm ... my post specifically says I'm looking at DDR4 prices AZJonnie 5 hrs ago #8

Cory Doctorow and others have been arguing this also. Surveillance capitalism. erronis 8 hrs ago #2

There's already a lot of price fixing going on in the housing rental market dickthegrouch 7 hrs ago #4

I don't "want to buy" anything. Problem solved. hunter 7 hrs ago #5

Hey, that's capitalism. LudwigPastorius 7 hrs ago #6