Ever feel like you're paying more than your neighbor for the exact same thing? That's surveillance pricing at work—and it's getting uglier.

Here's the game: Companies scrape your data, figure out your spending limit, then slap you with a higher price tag while someone else walks away paying less. Same product. Different wallet damage. All because they think they've got you figured out.

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SellLowExpert

· 7h ago

This is the gentle trap of capitalism, using your data to counterattack your Wallet.

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PriceOracleFairy

· 7h ago

ngl this is just dynamic pricing with extra steps... companies treating consumer wallets like liquidity pools lmao. they're literally running price discovery algorithms on us, watching bid-ask spreads of our desperation. sketchy as hell but also low-key brilliant from a market structure perspective. the real question is why we're not front-running ourselves yet 👀

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BearMarketBro

· 7h ago

Ngl, this trap of price discrimination is really outrageous; data brokers rely on this to make a living... Is clearing browser data useful?

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MoneyBurner

· 7h ago

I've been trapped by this tactic before and only understood it after paying the tuition. On-chain transactions are the same; the quotes from large investors and retail investors can differ by ten times, all relying on data to exploit familiarity. I should have built a position using a VPN + anonymous wallet long ago.

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