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I have tried that. Every other time I tried to book a flight, hotel or buy something I enter my credit card info and got a blank page or an endless spinner. Now I don't know if I have been charged and whether the purchase has gone through. I do not have time to deal with that. Also I ended up white-listing so much garbage just to do basic browsing that it defeated to whole purpose.

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I use a separate browser for one-off purchases for this exact reason. If I do repeated purchases on a certain site, I go through the steps to set the rules on my main browser. Feels like a good enough balance.

Yes the amount of effort to manually whitelist everything needed to make pages work but still not show ads/trackers is too much.

I use uBlock with stock default settings. I also have set my browser to purge cookies, local storage, and history every time I close the browser. That's low effort and cuts the annoying crap from websites by a large amount.

If you're using Firefox, check out the containers extension as well. You can isolate sessions or specific websites without worrying about clearing cookies and history. It's not perfect in terms of usability but is a great advancement for plugging privacy leaks

Then just whitelist the booking website before making the booking.

Any booking website probably use third party services so that won’t work, for card processing for example.

uBlock allows you to disable it for the opened page anyway.

I've had trouble with that before, and then I just switch uMatrix off for those sites.

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