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Remember when the assholes at United overbooked a flight and sent someone to knock a doctor's teeth out and carry him off a plane? The doctor refused since he was on his way to oversee the opening of a clinic he founded for veterans.
He and his wife started the clinic as a way to thank American servicemen and women, because he was plucked out of ocean waters by the U.S. Navy as he fled communism in his home country of Vietnam about 44 years ago, he said.
Fuck United Airlines.
What's the ROI on ads anyway? I feel like ads are just a way to funnel money between corps. People who are forced to see ads are really not even the point anymore. This is like corporations subsidizing other corporations. Don't even matter that you buy that item being shown to you.
I always wondered this too.
Found a website saying Youtube adviews are $100-300 per 10k (ad views, not video views). That's 1-3¢ per view. If we assume an ad is 10seconds, then your time is worth 0.1-0.3¢ per second, or $3.60-10.80 per hour.
An A380 looks to be 380-615 seats. I'd imagine they're more often optimising for space, so let's say 550.
Long haul flight, 10% of people at any time using inflight stuff, 8 hours, 4 ads per hour = 5500.18*4 ads watched. 1760 ads. There will be a massive premium for planes, but surely only one order of magnitude more (e.g. 10x). That's equivalent to give or take 20k YouTube adviews which would be $200-600 per flight.
There are a lot of planes in the sky every single day though....
Oh look, yet another reason why not to fly anymore!
Are the ads selling life insurance?
Not if the flight is a Boeing.
“I’m sorry ma'am but could you please remove your jacket from the seat? It’s obstructing the ads and we have a very clear policy about that”
🙃
To begin the flight, please drink Mountain Dew Verification Can.
Verification Can Invalid. Please drink Mountain Dew Verification Can.
ERROR! Passenger attempting to steal Premium Ad-less Flying Option! Adding your name to the No Fly List and automatically deducting penalty fee from your credit card.
ERROR! Credit Card Declined! Alerting TSA! Alerting FBI! Alerting Sky Marshals!
They could come up with some bullshit like, obstructing your screen is interfering with the display of critical airplane safety information or something.
i will be taping cardboard over the screen
Omg genius. What about the other hundred of screens of passengers around you?
Me, an italian, i see an underdevelopped species of "coffe" inside a soap dispender and die inside
Airline passengers should have confidence that their personal information is not being shared improperly with third parties [...]
So they are only shared properly with third parties? Great!
Man, we should break more stuff.
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.
Does united use the same in flight entertainment system as Delta? If united does they are probably tracking you using the facial detection camera on the seats.
That is a proximity sensor. It allows the touch buttons on the bezel to light up when your hand approaches
No it's actually a facial recognition camera...
https://gizmodo.com/united-and-delta-cover-their-seatback-cameras-in-bid-to-1834381804
Interesting. I guess it does both
I highly doubt that, the compute on these tablets is straight trash.
Until proven otherwise, I'd assume the worst. They know your identity to travel, and they link it with profiles from all the major ad networks.
I think you're spot on. In addition to needing to hand over your passport or state ID, your credit card, your email and phone number, what else would they need to target you?
Imagine if you're using your airline branded credit card to get free miles or a seat upgrade and they know all your purchase history.
"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..."
Don't forget your trusty a4 and duct tape to plane.
