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i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling
searched london to new york on a tuesday
$483
checked again 2 hours later
$512
next morning: $547
panicked and booked it
the guy sitting next to me paid $391
same seat, date + airline
$156 less
he searched once i searched 3 times
the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke
the seat doesnt have a price
you have a price
and it goes up EVERY time you show interest
couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier
asked him what happened to me
"you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back"
asked how to beat it
"most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying"
"so what actually works?"
"you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity"
the protocol he gave me:
VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase
use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies
one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice
book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against
if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network
"we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab"
$900 billion industry
the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug
its the entire business model
stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable
NEW: The World Anti-Doping Agency is reportedly investigating whether or not Olympic ski jumpers are injecting their pen*s' with hyaluronic acid for a competitive edge.
The announcement comes after German newspaper Bild reported on the bizarre accusation.
The outlet reports that multiple people were previously banned from competing after it was revealed they adjusted their suits around the crotch area to provide extra lift.
The scheme made the suits larger, reducing the rate at which they descended.
One study found that for every 2cm in "suit size circumference," there was a 4% reduction in drag, increasing lift by 5%, which can reportedly add an extra 5.8 meters in the length of the jump.
"Jumpers have switched to other methods to game the system when they are measured for their suits, data for which is taken by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals," the Guardian reported.
"They include injecting acid into their penises or putting clay in their underwear to make their measurements temporarily bigger and therefore their suits looser for when they compete."
In response to the report, Wada president Witold Banka said he was "going to look at it."
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
Impeach and remove Kristi Noem.
Congress must not fund DHS.
No more money without disciplined leadership and massive reforms—real training, body cameras, no masks—and clear rules for how federal agent misconduct will be investigated, prosecuted, and punished.
Breaking: Curt Cignetti and Indiana have agreed to terms on a new eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of approximately $11.6M, the school announced.
The new contract runs through November 30, 2033.
No political party has moved so quickly from DONT TREAD ON ME to DO TREAD ON ME than the GOP in its transition from a Tea Party-inspired party to a MAGA, Inc.-inspired party.
John Calipari: "Last year was the start, and now it's time for us to build on that foundation. This team has a chance to be special. Will they stay together through the ups and downs, which we did a year ago?... If they do that, there's no limit to how far this team can go."
@4029news Coaching salaries were low, but total spending was higher than Florida, LSU, and Missouri, and equal to Ole Miss. We seem to be doing substantially worse than those programs.
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.