Are 14 people really looking at that product?
Blatant lies revealed in the source code for an online shop.
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4 min readJun 15, 2020
Online stores will use any trick in the book to lure you into purchasing their products, but few lessons in trickery are as obvious as the blatant deception that I will be covering in this article.
When browsing online shops, you will sometimes find a number that indicates how many people are allegedly viewing the same product that you are viewing right now. This is especially popular among flight- and hotel booking services…