I look forward to gray-hat software that allows you to posture as someone who's very price sensitive, and thereby allows you to purchase tickets fairly cheaply.
I would expect that if you did that you must actually be price sensitive. It’s an odd sort of recursive problem.
Could go either way. Some people will pay lots to save just a few cents more. Kind of like spending time and money to drive further to a petrol station that has slightly lower prices. Or paying lots to your accountant to save roughly the same amount in taxes.
If you're that price sensitive you shouldn't have to use software to do it because the seller will know from metadata and offer you the lowest price they think you'll take.
Maybe I'm not price sensitive; maybe I'm driven by being upset at this system.
Which is the same thing from the other perspective, which only cares about how much money it can get from you.
Well, sometimes I check prices in multiple ways. Logged in at ISP-assigned IP. Not logged in, on another machine, via VPN service. My wife and her friends sometimes get different price quotes for the same flight/class, at the same time.
Pretty sure there will be a whole industry of intermediaries. Just like the consolidators and travel agencies now, they could brand the process "price optimisation".
A better bet would be posturing as someone who flies all the time. Luring repeat customers with low introductory pricing is a well-known tactic