I’ve set my VPN to Brazil and gotten cheaper flights before.
I’ve noticed that trick hasn’t worked in a while, and I read somewhere it could be my cookies.
Clearing cookies is a pain in the a** because I have to re-login to a bunch of sites I use daily, so trying to avoid it if possible.
Is there any way to make Skyscanner and Google flights (and other booking websites) not see my cookies, without clearing all my cookies?
(or any plugins that might help with this?)
Just clear cookies for specific sites or just simply use different browser.
Incognito mode on chrome, or go to the website, click on the little lock icon next to the URL in the address bar, go to cookies and data, and delete everything for that site only. Then close that tab out and open the site in a new tab.
I haven’t seen clearing cookies do a thing for flight prices these days.
Temporary containers on Firefox are convenient for this. Unlike incognito, you can open as many separate sessions as you want (all incognito tabs/windows share one).
Just download librewolf and use that whenever you’re shopping for tickets. The default configuration for it pretty much makes it a fresh browser every time you open it
It will depend on the site, but realistically they either are or will be using increasingly invasive and smarter tools to figure out if they can charge extra.
There’s VPN and cookies. But don’t forget they can see things like pixel density, window dimensions, operating system, which VPN provider you use etc… they’ll all give indications about the customer that’s browsing.
So I’d recommend some cookie management plugins.
private browser window (?)
They can get you a number of ways.
Cookies, localStorage, screen monitor size, pixel density, browser version, ip address, operating system etc…
They’ve gotten smarter but they also know that people have caught on, so I reckon they’re being smart and using it sparingly.
I guess they’re not convenient for this. Downvote fairy, explain yourself