United Airlines is personalizing in-flight marketing as the carrier seeks to cash in on passenger data.
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For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:

This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.

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Dude, you can just turn the screen off. Its OK.

No, you can’t.

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Please enter your credit card to disable ads

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It’s a contactless carrier, they already have my card on file.

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“If you don’t like it don’t fly”

Seriously just shut up.

Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

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Comedy is an art form. You need to commit to the joke.

@Potatisen@lemmy.world
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They did what?

@Seleni@lemmy.world
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Wow. Even Trump thought they went too far. Damn.

And the CEO who brushed that assault off ‘suffered’ a ‘delayed promotion’. Poor thing. For saying that stuff about anyone, let alone a customer, he should have been fired, no golden parachute.

I think the doctor’s patients should have sued the airline too, since no doubt having their doctor pounded to a pulp caused them to miss their appointments.

@Eheran@lemmy.world
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The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.

@umbrella@lemmy.ml
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i think we should make them afraid to cross us

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The thing I hate is that all these airline screens usually default to “on”, and people tend to leave defaults. I’m a tall person, and can usually see a large number of the screens in front of me. So if I’m on a night flight, even if I don’t intend to sleep, the only way to not be blinded by dozens of ads for a few hours is to bring a sleep mask.

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I feel so bad for tall people on planes. It’s uncomfortable AF for all of us, but you guys have to become human origami just to sit. It’s insane that this shit is legal. I avoid flying as much as possible.

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Also, ths taller you are, the more likely you are to be seriously injured in severe turbulence, malfunctions, minor crashes and major crashes.

@cm0002@lemmy.world
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It’s uncomfortable AF for all of us

Idk, I’m pretty comfortable on planes, and I’m around 5’8 lol

@notannpc@lemmy.world
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Good luck with that. I’m gonna turn that bitch off one way or another.

@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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Cunts

I wonder how long it will be before they start giving discounts on tickets for interacting with the ads a certain number of times during the flight.

@madcaesar@lemmy.world
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Never. The whole ad craze is there to milk profits on top of the things you already paid for.

What you are suggesting would actually be a more fair system.

Free with ads or paid with no ads.

Asshole corporations want paid and ads.

@Etterra@lemmy.world
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So… How long before tape and blank paper are banned on planes?

@kelargo@lemmy.world
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Are the ads selling life insurance?

Not if the flight is a Boeing.

@PeroBasta@lemmy.world
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Me, an italian, i see an underdevelopped species of “coffe” inside a soap dispender and die inside

@wavebeam@lemmy.world
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i read the article and it didn’t seem to state. how will they target me? using the personal info I’m required to give them to book my flight? the origin and destinations and seat location? these are entirely different kinds of metrics. one is far more invasive. and is it tying into larger models they’ve purchased from like google or something? this is stupid and i hate it.

Could be monitoring in flight wifi. I have no idea.

Man, we should break more stuff.

i will be taping cardboard over the screen

Omg genius. What about the other hundred of screens of passengers around you?

@pyre@lemmy.world
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so bring extra… noted.

Wireless ad blockers 5$ each

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I am just so, so tired of being constantly inundated with being told to CONSUME.

If you’re in a plane, you deserve it.

@Holyginz@lemmy.world
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Careful, your ignorance is showing

@Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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thanks, I’ll just abandon my family

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Shouldn’t be that far away from them in the first place if you actually cared.

@Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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This is fucking hilarious. Do you know that sometimes, people go elsewhere for economic opportunities? Then they bring their children after they get settled in?

Sometimes they go back, and leave the children there.

Do you think those kids should be stranded?

I don’t care lol.

Work where you live, it’s not that hard.

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Consume

“oh no everyone has phones, nobody needs these shitty displays anymore should we remove them and replace them with a phone holder?”

“I have a better idea…”

It is a matter of time before they figure out how to do targeted ads in dreams.

If they do that, I will laser the optics off soviet early warning satellites and start thevnuclear holocaust. I think everyone would like that !

Where’s my duct tape and mini tool

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Years ago I was on a flight where you couldn’t turn this screen off. You could turn off the programming, but the screen still glowed. I discovered that if you take an advertisement from the back pocket and fold it, it can be inserted perfectly into the cracks around the screen and block it completely. Use the ads to block the ads.

Can I pull a boomer move and keep touching the screen repeatedly harder even though it’s not a touch screen??? I MUST HAVE THIS, WHY IS IPAD NOT WORKING!!!

@foggy@lemmy.world
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Where’s my high-powered magnet?

I’m sure there’s something I can do to discreetly fuck up that screen.

@Agent641@lemmy.world
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A packet of printable stick-on shipping labels is like 5 bucks. 10 seconds to apply, probable never removable without damaging the screen.

Or those nice warranty stickers which disintegrate when peeling off

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