The Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs

When you're shopping online, you and another person could be buying the exact same item and you'll pay more because of who you are, where you are, and your purchase history. Pricing has gone high tech. What we're seeing is big tech sort of reinventing the ripoff. The new realities of surveillance pricing and tips to avoid it. That's this week on the Life Kit podcast from NPR.

Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, it's Terry Gross back with another Fresh Air Plus bonus episode. Just a quick note before we start, this is a special episode because we're making it available to all of our listeners. Usually these plus episodes featuring interviews from our archive are just available for our Fresh Air Plus supporters. But in the spirit of the season, we wanted to give everyone a chance to listen.

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