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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

Companies are already using this technology to rip you off, and they're *slavering* for the chance to do more of it. Instacart was recently caught marking up some shoppers' items by as much as a *third*: pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/n... 19/

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Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

The problem is that as much as companies love this, shoppers *hate* it. Last summer, Delta announced that it was going to surveillance price every seat on every flight. 20/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

Then they faced such a massive backlash that they had to make another announcement bemoaning the fact that we'd all misunderstood their (unambiguous and extremely damning) announcement and they were actually going to do no such thing: pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/e... 21/

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Pluralistic: Delta’s AI-based price-gouging (30 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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