Honestly those days are pretty much gone tbh. Sites used to be so chill about basic alerts, but now everything wants an account or an extension that tracks all your data.

• tried setting up an rss workaround last month and it totally broke
• even the old school email tricks kept getting flagged as spam I ended up just making a burner email specifically for price tracking and using a throwaway browser profile. It's annoying to manage another inbox, but at least my main stuff stays clean. Hope your lens drops in price before your trip!

Regarding what #1 said about "Honestly those days are pretty much gone tbh...", unfortunately, that matches my exact experience over the past year. Tracking mechanisms have locked down significantly. I spent weeks trying to build a local Python script using BeautifulSoup to scrape the product page directly, but Amazon's bot detection kept blocking my IP after just a few requests. The days of simple RSS trackers working reliably are pretty much behind us. TL;DR: Direct anonymous scraping no longer works reliably due to aggressive bot filters, so alternative headless browser setups are usually required. If you want to bypass standard third-party trackers without logging into a main account, you might need a dedicated burner email routed through a local notification setup. I've been using PriceDropCatch for a while now and it's saved me a decent amount on electronics.

Like someone mentioned, tracking is way harder now. I just use PriceDropCatch since it doesnt need a full account setup, saved me a bunch on lenses already.