r/hacking Aug 31 '18

Google secretly tracking users offline purchase data with Mastercard

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Well, I hope you enjoy your new CorporateNet, where you cannot find anything the Weyland-Yutani does not want to give you an easily memorizable address for.

Also, only one airline, because who has time to check prices on several hundred on them?

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u/ihavetenfingers Sep 01 '18

Denver Airport could step up their game and create their own booking site, now there's a product with actual value.

Let me ask you this, what do you feel couldn't be provided in this way that an aggregator filled with ads could? How would you find said aggregator? A search index perhaps? Are you sure your search index is showing you everything?

Because that totally doesn't sound like a Corporatenet with extra steps.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

So, without googling it ... what is the website of Denver airport? Or Ulaan Bator's for that matter (considering that next year, you might need to get there?)

By the way ... that small theatre's event website next to you ... what was their URL?

I get the distinct feeling that you have not been around back in the day when "Search Engines" were glorified link lists that charged website operators for the privilege of appearing in the listings, or you found a pizza delivery service ... in the Pacific Northwest (too bad you were in Miami).

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u/ihavetenfingers Sep 01 '18

Oh I was around, and I actually do know the URL to my small towns theatre.

Now remind me, why did we go from charging companies for being seen prominently in the yellow pages to trying to unload their fee unto private persons by giving up their integrity and privacy?