Well, this is cute.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic Huge OpenSource fans airlines, typically.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic Yes, we've seen this. Also, the price sometimes goes up if, logged in, you leave and come back later!
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic maybe they got a deal with the other platform where you get extra discount?
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@pluralistic maybe they got a deal with the other platform where you get extra discount?
@energisch_ I pasted the URL with its identifiers from Firefox to Chromium, so as far as the Chromium window (where I was logged into my Air Canada account) knew, I was being referred there by Google Flights, same as the Firefox window (where I wasn't logged in). Firefox was about 25% cheaper.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic searching for holiday flights yesterday, KLM offered to "hold this price" for me for the low low cost of €180
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@energisch_ I pasted the URL with its identifiers from Firefox to Chromium, so as far as the Chromium window (where I was logged into my Air Canada account) knew, I was being referred there by Google Flights, same as the Firefox window (where I wasn't logged in). Firefox was about 25% cheaper.
@pluralistic would be interesting how AirCanada can explain this - maybe they have a list of people that have to pay more, since logged in your id was known.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
A coworker in sales told me that he always uses private mode to shop for flights/travel. Something to do with cookies talking to each other that ratchets up the prices.
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@pluralistic would be interesting how AirCanada can explain this - maybe they have a list of people that have to pay more, since logged in your id was known.
@energisch_ it's because I'm a frequent flier, so they assume they already have my business and can cheat me without losing it.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic Somebody told me once to use library computers to escape airlines’ maximum-possible-pricing algorithm, since it is essentially impossible for them to perform any sort of tracking or identifying there.
I haven’t tested this but it feels like a good idea?
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A coworker in sales told me that he always uses private mode to shop for flights/travel. Something to do with cookies talking to each other that ratchets up the prices.
@angela_underscore @pluralistic
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@energisch_ it's because I'm a frequent flier, so they assume they already have my business and can cheat me without losing it.
Yet another level of #enshittification :
Provide customer loyalty benefits to help secure your very best customers, then turn the tables and screw them for that very same loyalty.
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@energisch_ it's because I'm a frequent flier, so they assume they already have my business and can cheat me without losing it.
@pluralistic @energisch_ luftansa did the same thing to me last year.. Use chrome and get hit with $260 more expensive ticket. Firefox? Didn't happen.
Nothing like good ole surveillance capitalism to really make summer vacation.
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@pluralistic Yes, we've seen this. Also, the price sometimes goes up if, logged in, you leave and come back later!
@randulo @pluralistic yes same!
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic loyalty is punishable.
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A coworker in sales told me that he always uses private mode to shop for flights/travel. Something to do with cookies talking to each other that ratchets up the prices.
@angela_underscore @pluralistic same! They want to ramp up prices with each check you do, creating pressure to "buy now" because you see the price steadily climbing.
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@pluralistic searching for holiday flights yesterday, KLM offered to "hold this price" for me for the low low cost of €180
@tstruthers
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@pluralistic Somebody told me once to use library computers to escape airlines’ maximum-possible-pricing algorithm, since it is essentially impossible for them to perform any sort of tracking or identifying there.
I haven’t tested this but it feels like a good idea?
@ehushagen
I think they also take into account how expensive the device you're using is, for example high end iphone users will pay more than the users of a dirt cheap offbrand phone. I imagine library computers are not that new in general either. -
Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic I've had an onlineshop showing a higher price for a product when using search, and a lower one when using list filtering. Dark patterns everywhere. https://cweiske.de/tagebuch/computeruniverse-doppelprodukt.htm
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@pluralistic loyalty is punishable.
@mcSlibinas @pluralistic shopping without a loyalty card at a big box pharmacy or grocery store often dramatically increases the price of many items, sometimes even double the price!
I miss the old style bar code loyalty cards where no Personally Identifiable Information other than your actual purchases were disclosed.
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@tstruthers
How much was the flight???!?!@econads @pluralistic 4k for my family from the EU back to the US. But yes holding the price for €180 is crazy, I'm gonna price it again tonight and see how much higher it is, guessing more than €180
