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[–] [email protected] 218 points 6 months ago (42 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That seems incredibly stupid. A doctor can afford to sue.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

he wasn't white, so they didn't assume he was a doctor

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

i think we should make them afraid to cross us

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[–] [email protected] 169 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

This should count as violation of human rights. You're chained to the seat for hours and have no other option than look at this screen or force your eyes closed. Holy shit, people should get really mad. Flashing ads on a screen you don't look at directly are still very annoying, even if you look on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I need to start a business selling rectangular shaped covers for these displays. I’ll even make one that serves as a holder for an iPad, so you can substitute your own screen.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 6 months ago (21 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, for a monthly subscription!

[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 months ago (3 children)

We tried that in the 80s already. Here's how it went down.

1980s comes along, and people had been seeing commercials on tv for years. So along comes this new concept. Now you can PAY to watch tv.....without ads. GREAT!

So people started paying for this new "cable tv". Then the cable operators were like "I know they're paying to not see ads......but what if we STILL showed ads, and STILL took their money????"

So that happened.

Then after some decades Netflix came around, originally with liscensed tv shows from all over tv.......except now you could PAY to watch them, without the ads. And then they drastically lost their liscensed content, and produced their own original content.

After a few decades, Netflix said "I know they're paying not to see commercials.......but what if we STARTED showing commercials, AND raised prices every few months."

Man, I can't wait for the next guy to charge me money to not see ads. Only to inevitably show me ads a few years later....

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Targeted, individualized, advertising should be illegal. This will gut a lot of the motivations for the privacy invasions and data harvesting. This is how advertising worked for thousands of years. I think it could continue to be just fine.

The amount of resources humanity is spending on targeted advertising is extremely depressing when you consider the opportunity cost. There are thousands of engineers and product managers that spend all day on this stuff instead of anything useful.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So I am going to sit down and the screen will be full of penis enlargement pills? What will all the hot singles in the area think?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

..that will now reflect the information United has compiled on individual travelers, like where they live and destinations they've traveled to.

I, for one, can't wait to have my personal info proudly displayed to whatever randos they seat next to me! /s

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Classic late stage capitalism, where humans' sole reason for existence is being advertised to. Soon we'll start putting ads in incubators too, and invalidate this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/17-days-in-incubator-longest-time-premature-baby-will-g-1851456014

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

More to consider when selecting an airline. Greedy fuckers, I hope their stock takes a nosedive thanks to this

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It'll probably take a small dip and then rise quite a bit once profits from implementing it start rolling in

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

“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”

🙃

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Including the opt out link in the announcement article is a good guy move on the writer's part. Thanks, Kate. You're a pal.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I requested opt out and they requested my ID. lol! So they’re demanding more info to opt out of info collection.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/doctor-dragged-off-united-airlines-flight-watching-viral-62250271

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"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..."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (16 children)

This just confirms my decision to never fly United again

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I already dislike the experience of being with other passengers on United. Nothing negative occurred on my part, just noticed how badly behaved other passengers were compared to every other airline I’ve flown.

My point is, I wouldn’t pick United to fly as my first choice.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So... How long before tape and blank paper are banned on planes?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

I wear a sleep mask on flights and once my IEMs go in they don’t come out until we’re about to land. In short, I don’t see or hear shit.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Can't wait to see adds for prostate exams or erectile malfunction on a plane when I get older.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And I'm sure this in no way will invade people's privacy.

"Hmm, why is the anti-queer politician sitting next to me being served dozens of male underwear ads? Hmmmm..."

"Why is my daughter receiving ads for newborn diapers? Hmmm..."

"Why is my neighbor receiving ads for anger management? Hmmm..."

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Nothing a bit of paper/cardboard and a strip of tape can't fix.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Where's my duct tape and mini tool

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"weird, yeah I got here and this screen just had all this sharpie over it, i dunno how it happened"

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