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You might use a VPN for any number of reasons

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from accessing region blocked content

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to logging into your school's library from off campus

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to obfuscating your IP address

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when you're legally downloading backups

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of your movies and games.

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But did you know that a VPN can be used

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to potentially save thousands of dollars

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on your next airplane ticket?

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We are gonna show you guys how in just a few seconds,

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you can completely stymie the airlines algorithms

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and get the best possible price for your next trip.

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Oh, and by the way, it works for hotel and car rentals too.

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Now, full disclosure,

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this works with just about any VPN of your choosing,

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but we will be using Private Internet Access VPN,

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one of our sponsors here on the show.

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So if you like what you see,

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you can check them out at the link in the video description.

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To demonstrate how airlines and flight booking services

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show different search results

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depending on who you are and where you're from,

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we're gonna do a test where we book a flight

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from London to Denver and see if we get different prices.

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So the first thing we're gonna do

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is our regular old search as if we live in London.

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So if I type, show my location into Google,

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it's telling me I'm in London.

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Now, if I go to the Expedia UK site

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and book a flight from LHR to DEN

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for September 11th to 15th and choose business class,

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the cheapest result I get is a direct flight

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from Iberia Airlines for 5,935 pounds.

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That's over 7,500 US dollars.

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Pretty steep.

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Okay, so now let's see if we can get a better price.

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The first thing that you need to do

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is clear the cookies from your browser.

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Remember that cookies are messages

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that web servers pass to your browser

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as you surf the internet,

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creating a record of your activity online.

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Travel sites use cookies to help them drive ticket sales.

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So if you search for a flight,

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but then you leave without buying,

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the cookies will tell them that,

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and then the next time you search for that flight,

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they might increase the price that you see

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by maybe a small amount, 10, $20.

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At that point, human psychology compels you

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to buy the ticket right now out of fear

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that the price will continue to go up.

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Fortunately, we're not gonna have to worry about that.

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Unfortunately, you can get browser extensions

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that help you delete cookies as you go.

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We're using auto cookie delete,

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which clears all the cookies generated by a tab

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as soon as you close it,

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or it can dump them automatically as you browse.

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Cool.

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Next, we're gonna use our VPN

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to make it look like we're browsing from somewhere else.

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Now, there are differing theories

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as to what the best location to book flights from is.

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I've heard that booking from the US

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always gets the best deal.

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I've heard that booking from a less affluent place

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like the Midwest instead of the coast,

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or a less affluent country like India instead of Germany

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is the way to go.

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And then there are those who swear

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that booking from the destination country is the best,

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or even that it's the local currency

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of the airline itself that matters.

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Naturally, the only way to test these theories

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is to run your own experiments.

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And this is where your choice of VPN makes a difference,

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because there's an amount of VPN that has servers

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in lots of different locations all around the world.

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So you can see that PIA has a decently long list here,

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including some countries with multiple servers within them.

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So, since we're flying from London to Denver,

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I'm gonna choose the Denver server.

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So now I'm going back to my browser,

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making sure my cookies are cleared,

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and now when I tell Google to show me my location,

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you can see that it thinks I'm in Denver.

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Going back to Expedia, and searching for the same thing,

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or the same flight again, bam!

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There's that same nonstop flight from Iberia Airlines,

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this time for 49.16 US dollars instead of 7,700,

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a full $2,800 cheaper.

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That is all there is to it.

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If you travel a lot,

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obviously the savings can end up adding up pretty quickly.

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For us, booking from the destination

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definitely looks like a winning strategy,

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but let us know in the comments below,

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after you've tried it,

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if you've had success with some other way.

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Regardless of all of that,

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having a good VPN is definitely worth it,

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especially considering that this is only one

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of the many things that a VPN can be used for,

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and they're cheap.

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PIA can be had for as little as $2.91 a month.

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So be sure to check them out at the link below.

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You only have to save $2,000 on a flight,

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like once, to pay for an entire lifetime of PIA.

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And leave a comment if you wanna see more videos

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about the uses of VPNs, just like this one.

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Maybe we could make this into like a series.