Are 14 people really looking at that product?

Blatant lies revealed in the source code for an online shop.

Jacob Bergdahl
Dev Genius
Published in
4 min readJun 15, 2020

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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…

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