United Airlines starts serving passengers personalized ads on seat-back screens
(www.cnbc.com)
from Blaze@reddthat.com to privacy@lemmy.ca on 09 Jun 2024 20:05
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from Blaze@reddthat.com to privacy@lemmy.ca on 09 Jun 2024 20:05
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This feels like hell to me. Is this hell?
Air travel has always been hell, they are just streamlining the experience to maximise your pain.
Don’t you love it when Satan is efficient?
disgusting.
You gonna watch this "content" peasant after you paid me too much for the ticket. What are you gonna do about it?
So Xacto knives are ok on a plane. Would slicing out the screen edges shut it down?
What? Since when? I’ve watched TSA confiscate a toy lightsaber from some kid’s backpack, why the heck would an actual knife be allowed?
In Canada (and flying overseas) a blade 4" or less was ok. BTW, the boxcutters used on 9/11 were 3" blades, so we’re paying for security theatre at this point in funding CBSA or the TSA.
At this point? It’s always been security theater at the TSA. I’ve heard countless stories of people forgetting about a handgun in a carry-on and the TSA missed it, and others where baby milk was confiscated.
I don’t know anything about the CBSA, but we (the US) should shut down the TSA, increase the liability of airlines for security, and let the airlines and their insurance decide what’s enough security. They certainly couldn’t do a worse job…
I went on Hawaiian airlines and they have ads. Not like TV, but like they’d have product placements. It felt weird but I was okay with it because I think it was “local?” They also pitched a bunch of local alcohols and drinks for purchase too.
And watching their little TV also includes those ads. Usually before the show.
I usually bring my own device.
Same here … last time, I took a tablet and watched two full movies of my own choosing that I wanted to watch. Instead of having the choice of 10 whatever movies that the airline has available, I got to watch what I wanted for the 7 hour flight. The rest of the time, I just slept.
Best combination - your own tablet loaded with your own videos and audio and a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.
Make sure to download all content before the flight to work offline, load it all and test it the day before the flight. Disconnect the tablet from the internet and leave it disconnected. (The first time I did this, I loaded tons of Spotify content, didn’t test it beforehand and couldn’t access any of it on the eight hour flight).
Best way to do it is to just download audio and video files that are not tied to any service like Netflix/Amazon/Spotify/whatever.
Give yourself hours of content to choose from.
Have a nice flight.
Wow is that actually what the inside of an airplane looks like? I’ve never seen a photo from this angle and it looks so impossibly claustrophobic.
It’s gotta be a weird lens or something because that feels like way more room than IRL.
Yeah it looks like it was done with a wide-angle and up between the overheads
Jokes on them… I turn the screen off, slap on a pair of noise cancelling headphones, and put on my sleeping mask when I’m on a plane.