Method and system for detecting pricing driven by browser settings

A method and a system are provided for detecting pricing driven by browser settings. A method and a system are also provided for identifying merchants that are using browser-driven or cookie-driven price setting mechanisms, and for helping shoppers obtain the lowest available price for a product or service. A computer system-implemented method includes utilizing a webcrawler program or other searching program to access one or more merchant websites and recover pricing and/or other product or service information, identifying one or more browser settings that minimize price of a product or a service, accessing the one or more merchant websites with a computer device having the one or more browser settings that minimize price of the product or service, and purchasing the product or service at the minimized price. The computer system-implemented method can also utilize a central hub that connects multiple computer devices together.