The extent to which businesses use surveillance pricing is unknown, the FTC said.
Just one more reason why we should be keeping companies from collecting our data and looking like anyone else to them. Typically it is argued that data is subsidizing something, but here it is directly increasing your costs.
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Is it enough to clear cookies and site data to avoid this when e-shopping?
No. Use Tor browser.
Websites track you in various ways including fingerprinting, random injected javascript code and other stuff. I’d recommend to at least get the uBlockOrigin addon to block trackers.