Google's goal to control prices
Richard Stallman's Personal Page [Unofficial]
May 23, 2026
Matt Stoller thinks Google's next goal is to control nearly all prices based on collecting personal information about nearly all purchases and personal preferences.
See https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/ and https://substack.com/redirect/d27787e6-e804-4231-8f23-2eaf0e1bc652?j=eyJ1IjoiMmRjd2YyIn0.m51z6BBZ0nK06POYEEH_mMhm8t1iRiokalBUx8IccKE
It is unfortunate that Stoller effectively boosts this scheme by describing it with the term "artificial intelligence".
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