If you are the type of person who likes to organize their own trips, book hotels and buy airline tickets online, this trick will change the way you search and book flights.
We are all familiar with those small windows that sometimes pop us when we first visit a website and asks us to “accept cookies”. Naturally, we accept them and give consent for who knows what, because, realistically, 90 percent of people do not even know what they accepted. Therefore, we have decided to reveal to you what this is all about.
A small, prior explanation – cookies and browsing
Let’s dig into the topic right away! Cookies are small files that a website inserts on your computer or phone. They have a goal to collect information about your movement on the website and customize its content to you. So later on you will get the content that is quite “personalized”. Apart from that, cookies are used to remember your login information, so that the next time – when you visit a given website you will avoid logging in again. Convenient, right?
In addition, cookies allow the website owner to track analytics. For example, they can track the number of unique users and their characteristics. Maybe even where the visitors came from and where they moved through the content and pages on the site.
What is most interesting to many, and at the same time worrying, is the ability of cookies to register your interests or what you have searched on Google. What is means is that you can later be shown ads that advertise just that. Thus e.g. you search for a summer destination, and then later in the day, you are “chased” by hotels from that very destination on Instagram, FB or YT, YouTube. Cookies are there for you to get the best user experience and for the content to be tailored to you!
How we can use travel tricks for our trips?
The next time you search for airline tickets on one of the low-cost companies’ sites, when you notice that the price rises every time you type the same dates again, just delete the cookies on the browser or simply change the device you are looking for and get the original price. It works in 80% of cases.
The reason why this is done simply comes down to a process called dynamic pricing. This means that prices vary depending on demand. You may have thought that it would be enough to refresh the page or to open the site in “incognito”. Not only is this not true, but this way you can also increase the price. When you delete all cookies, you will delete all your history stored in the browser. This means that you will surely delete all previous searches and you will be able to start a new one.
Let the hunt begin!
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