The carrier on Friday said it launched a media platform to serve travelers personalized advertisements on seat-back screens and in its app, among other platforms, as it seeks to leverage customer data.
I launch baseball cap pulled down on my eyes
I’ll scratch the screen with my keys if so
And now I will never fly United again. Time to move on
I bet soon more airlines will follow. Our cars are no different either. No much options left for traveling.
I will not travel then. I refuse to be violated.
I admire your conviction. But in that case we also have to consider how your right to move about freely is being affected. If you feel like you need to choose not to travel when you want or need to travel, how will you reconcile? Do you weigh and choose the lesser evil? Seems like you just end up violated one way or another. I don’t like it, not any of this.
This is why you bring tape and a few pieces of paper in your carry-on
I can ignore ads on a motherfucking plane just like I can everywhere else. It’s just another insult to paying customers added to the pile.
We noticed you may not be fully appreciating the information provided by our valued partners. We’re increasing the volume and raising your seat to help you experience them better – your friends at United
Phones play movies. If they make the seatback system annoying then people will just stop using it and download movies from Netflix or wherever
It is on a Boeing 737 max 8…🤣 So, if you are crazy enough to enter a plane that falls out of the sky because of corrupt Boeing and FAA then you are also crazy enough to see personalized ads 🤣
Flying is still the safest mode of travel.
Generally speaking yes, but not with Boeing 737 max 8
But how can they access a passenger’s digital profile?
They know your name. That’s usually enough.
And your email, identity document, photo, payment method… lots of fun data points to boil it down to a demographic of one person.
I would assume it’s mostly ads for tourist places or local attractions at your destination
But the article says the ads are personalized. I really suspect it goes deeper than just the destination
Oh please. It’s 2024, and you’re still wondering how a company knows who you are? The plane knows who is sitting on which seat, unless you change seats, and the airline has, at least: you email, your credit card, name, address, gender, age, nacionality, origin and destination. From there, they can ask a number of data brokers for more information like purchase habits, health, wheather you have children, your field of work, etc etc. Even if it’s one’s of those flights without assigned seats, there are cameras in the cabin. It would be pretty easy to face ID who is sitting where.
I take small pleasure in the fact that any ads I see I have no intention of ever purchasing their shit. I would actively tell people to avoid it as well. We literally have ads shoved in our faces 24/7 and the amount I have after bills and shit is already earmarked so the ad companies can go shove a baseball bat up their ass.
That’s what I wanted to know. Well total surveillance is slowly becoming a thing. Having multiple digital identities and using privacy-respecting services makes more and more sense every day
The problem is that you can’t fly anonymous. They will always know exactly who you are. But yeah, you can at least try to limit the information on you, but still.
I believe you can use your “official identity” only for stuff that requires identification (like border crossing, business and flights) and create another one for general internet usage and stuff like that. It’s much harder in countries that require ID to buy a SIM card though
I think the whole of Europe requires ID for SIM cards these days.
It makes sense why they want to do it but it’s really sad. I think you still can use the majority of privacy-respecting internet if you host your own email (so you don’t need a phone number to register it) but it basically reverts the internet to the 90s because you need knowledge to set up a server and it doesn’t let you use almost all of the popular messenger apps, making usage of the “official identity” mandatory to contact most of the people and therefore lose privacy when the situation gets worse
I wouldn’t mind the ID if providers were regulated properly and couldn’t harvest user data, but naturally that’s not the case 😢 even governments expect to be able to request customer data.
Slowly? It’s already here. Been here for some years even
Not really. Some stuff can still remain private and there are useful privacy-respecting services. I believe it can get much worse
Last time I had my phone plugged in to charge it, I noticed that it wasn’t on charge mode exclusively, but it was actually on File Share Mode.
Now I don’t know if the airplane was able to instigate that connection mode, or why my phone was on that mode, but it did concern me incredibly that they were able to browse the files on my phone, when I just wanted it to charge.
Well that is obvious. Btw many phones have file share mode as the default now. Make sure you change it. But how about other cases? I don’t really understand. Are digital profiles officially tied to the ID and plane tickets now?
Or do you have an UA credit card?
That’s why you should use “usb condom” when charing your phone from untrusted power source.
Hell world
All I can say…
Booooooo!
Yes, let’s add things that make it mentally more claustrophobic, too.
Ads for replacements for items in your luggage they broke?
welp time to carry 100ml black spray paint
I’m okay IF the ads were only from novels of my liking. Never gonna happen though…
We need augmented reality glasses with uBlock Origin now more them ever. Fuck United Airlines and the ad-riddled plane they flew in on.
So we can see ads 24/7 in every space?
Yes, perfect, you get it.
