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ceejayoz
on Dec 22, 2019
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Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel ...
Not booking.com, but travel sites
definitely
have gotten caught using Math.random() to generate the "x people are looking!" alerts.
https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201
smueller1234
on Dec 22, 2019
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Oh yeah. Booking doesn't do it because it's big enough that it would get called out - externally and internally. Also, is actually much less snake oily a company than its reputation here or else I wouldn't have worked there for as many years.
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