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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

After a sudden spike in their car insurance, healthcare, and home owners insurance rates.

Dynamic pricing is already here. If you don’t have the app on your phone dinner costs 25% more than for the tracked.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Agreed, and also I believe we should be calling it "price discrimination." That's what companies call it when they're subjected to it by other parties. I feel like "dynamic pricing" is the euphemism they created to make it acceptable to apply to individual consumers.