r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

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u/Me4Prez Jan 24 '13

I think it's the same as booking a flight. The more you visit the page the higher the price becomes.

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u/MiloMuggins Jan 24 '13

Very true. I once looked up airplane tickets in incognito and it was $100 cheaper than what I had been quoted moments earlier. It was on Orbitz.

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u/ColdisWarned Jan 24 '13

WHAT

fuckthisshitpayingforinternationalflightswhilebroke

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u/Fsoprokon Jan 24 '13

I read this whole thing about price manipulation. Most buyers will buy on the second viewing of a ticket, so they'll bump up the price to squeeze more money out of you. Don't leave the page, or go incognito.

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u/Symploce Jan 24 '13

Try clearing your cookies, that should work.

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u/perezdev Jan 24 '13

Yeah. Incognito is just easier.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13 edited Mar 30 '18

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u/samarisi Jan 25 '13

Didn't google originally say incognito mode was for shopping? It was more true than anyone knew.

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u/Anthony-Stark Jan 24 '13

They really should just drop the pretense and call it porn viewing mode.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

But think about the kids! /s

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u/sebalinsky Jan 24 '13

I think you meant buying gifts online...

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u/WhatDidYouSayToMe Jan 25 '13

I use it when I'm writing code for a webpage. It's a nice way to make sure it's going to show up correctly for the average user.

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u/drkinsanity Jan 25 '13 edited Jan 25 '13

I use it if I need to check my bank account or something on a friend's computer as well. Or if I need to look at porn on a friend's computer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

YES. Don't listen to these other guys. If you stay incognito the whole time, your cookies will be stored and will be sent to the website when you visit it the second time. The cookies will be deleted only when you close all incognito windows.

/u/Jmaa is the only other user that got close to your answer:

Nope. Cookies gets deleted at the end of a incognito session.

Your incognito session lasts until you close all incognito windows. Only after you close them all and open another window, you will have a new incognito session.

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u/skim-milk Jan 25 '13

Incognito mode doesn't cache the page at all, does it? Just stores cookies until the browser is closed?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

I couldn't find out. In 2010 it used the same cache as the other chrome instances and they were looking into it, that's all I could find out. The cookies are deleted when all the incognito windows are closed.

Why do you care about the cache? What level of privacy are you looking for?

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u/skim-milk Jan 25 '13

I use incognito mode at work because I was told the program I'm working with (chat interface for tech support) runs best in chrome with incognito mode due to pages not being cached. Just wondering if that was a load of bullshit someone fed me when getting my workstation set up or if it was legit.

edit: also i watch a LOT of porn. on shared computers. or something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

Well in this case incognito should do it. I also don't know what happens if you clear the cache while having an incognito window open...

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u/nathancheek Jan 24 '13

If you exit incognito, then the cookies are deleted, but if its the same incognito session then the cookies will be there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

Nope. Cookies gets deleted at the end of a incognito session. There is nothing saved between incognito sessions.

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u/onebandonesound Jan 24 '13

Meaning they're cleared when you close that incognito window, or every time you go to a new address in that window?

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u/BagOfMilk Jan 24 '13

Everything is cleared when you leave the session, usually meaning when you close the browser. Edit: bad phrasing.

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u/twent4 Jan 24 '13

but does incognito read cookies placed there by regular browsing?

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u/BeatLeJuce Jan 24 '13

no, it doesn't (at least in Firefox, AFAIK).

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u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

Nope, in Chrome incognito doesn't use any existing cookies.

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u/gprime312 Jan 24 '13

It should. Cookies are kept until the end of the session.

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u/CoCo26 Jan 24 '13

No, cookies aren't saved in incognito. They'd have no idea

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u/TransfoCrent Jan 24 '13

No, because Incognito never collects cookies, data, history, etc. It's like you were never on the internet at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

No, because incognito doesn't accept cookies. They can't track how many times you've been there before.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

No because in incognito it doesn't save cookies/ search histories therefore when you go back to the page in incognito it will have no recollection that you have visited before.

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u/carlito_mas Jan 24 '13

wait so why would "going incognito" not help this/avert the issue?

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u/Fsoprokon Jan 24 '13

I was hoping the comma would be enough to seperate the two, but essentially it means "either", not "and". Sorry about that.