In my experience yes, but some planes ive notice they turn back on each time there is an announcement, so depending on how many it can be annoying. Eother way advertising is a cancer that plagues our lives more and more.

You can, but I’ve stopped ever using them because the screen completely stops for every. Single. Announcement.

And now you can have your phone out for take off and landings, so yea no thanks I’ll stick with my device that keeps working when they’re making some random announcement about drinks or some shit

If you still can, they’ll find ways to disable the option to turn them off, because it’s time you don’t watch an ad.

They did what?

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

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.

I got screeched at for covering up a super bright blinking light on a red eye. Their FAs are next level stupid.

i think we should make them afraid to cross us

And they break guitars

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Overbooking should be a mandatory minimum compensation of the greater of 1000x the ticket price or $20k. It’s a truly fucked up practice to disrespect people’s time like that.

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If you’re getting targeted ads for penis enlargement pills, then the system thinks you have a small pp. If this is an error, you should submit photographic evidence to their office to prove you don’t have a small pp.

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

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.

They also automatically turn the screens back on repeatedly after you turn them off.

I use a baseball cap pulled down. Works well for me

Basic economy will eventually only let you select any ad in their library. Actual content is for regular economy passengers only!

embedding arbitrary things was disabled a while back due to security reasons. Just link it

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It’s truly amazing…they must stand at the front of meetings and just ask “how do we make our passengers hate us most?”

Maybe I don’t understand the economics of this move, but are they really going to make that much more money from targeted ads? If it’s double the price, I assume it’s worth it, but if it’s a ~10% gain it’s just dumb.

Fumble what?

It’s a completely regulatory captured industry that makes the majority of its profit from being financially engineered gift card style quasi banking institutions via their milage program agreements.

This is just more cash off the top. Free $$$$.

About a decade ago Fox News got brought to court, and had to defend themselves against the idea that their content wasn’t actually factually accurate most of the time. Therefore not “news”.

Fox responded by saying that their program wasn’t meant to be news. I forget the exact quote, I’m sure duckduckgo is your friend, but it was along the lines of “No reasonable person would ever consume Fox News content and believe it to be trustworthy accurate news. It is an opinionated entertainment show about the news.”

I don’t remember their tagline at the time, but it was something along the lines of “Fox News is your only outlet for unbiased news!” Something to that effect. I just remember Jon Stewart calling out the hypocrasy of their tagline being the exact opposite of what they said in court.

If Fox News is entertainment meant to push the agenda that the right is right, and if CNN is entertainment meant to push the agenda that the left is right, then I don’t see why The Onion can’t join them as entertainment meant to push the agenda that the whole world is fucking stupid.

Still operating as a “real news source”, except it’s all bullshit like Fox News and CNN. Just entertainment.

So it’s okay then.

Have you ever flown on a Frontier or Spirit flight?

I assume they won’t allow porns in ads, but you can still get worse stuff than porn, like erectile dysfunction medication ads which causes people around your seat to look at you with sorry eyes.

The “article” is like 100 words and just restates the title in more words.

Maybe the only information it adds is that they won’t target passengers under 18

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.

I wasn’t aware they glued your eyelids and head directly facing the screen

You can turn off the TV dude

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

Preferably “accidentally” damaging the screen

Yes, for a monthly subscription!

The little guy always wins!

You probably did/do consent at some point, but nobody reads the fine print.

Calling into United:

Hey I see you charged me $400 for a replacement screen? Tell me, where did you buy the targeted ad data you used to display ads on that screen? Oh, an agency that I signed terms and conditions for at some point? Shit, alright then.

I mean, fuck United tho and they will not be getting and damn money from me.

You bought the ticket right?

Psssshhhhh, you won’t see them. It’s a 3 hour plane ride where you have no responsibilities, surrounded by people that by this point in the day you already can’t stand.

At that age, you’re telling me you WON’T fall asleep???

IEMs?

What else would you like to do? seize the means of production?

If you’re in a plane, you deserve it.

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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.

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.

But now you can silently judge your neighbors for the ads they are seeing.

Their seats did that for me. I’m 5’11", not a giant, and my knees were straight up jammed into the seat in front of me. Completely insane that they’re even legally allowed to sell those to people as seats. They might fit a child.

A very sticky sticker will do a better job

This is an interesting idea!

I wish I had train options where I live

I’ve heard they are great to cross oceans.

Why is my neighbor receiving ads for anger management?

He probably gets aggressive when seeing too many ads

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

Don’t forget your trusty a4 and duct tape to plane.

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.

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.

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

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

They could come up with some bullshit like, obstructing your screen is interfering with the display of critical airplane safety information or something.

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!

Not if the flight is a Boeing.

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…

I Vaguely recall that in the dystopian world depicted in the Max Headroom TV series it was illegal to turn off TVs. It felt bonkers to me when I was a kid, but now it doesn’t seem too far off.

United will kill your dog, bust up your guitar, and knock down and drag out your doctor. They’ve made the headlines for all three of those. And the guitar guy made a song about United.

Unfortunately, the other airlines aren’t much better.

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.

Yup.

My last flight a year ago was so bad I’m just going to drive from now on. I don’t care if I have to take an extra day of PTO.

They do and I won’t argue that point. It would fly in the face of everything I have seen. Multiple times I have flown on planes based in 3rd world countries to other 3rd world countries and each and every time it was a more pleasant experience than flying domestic in the US. I mean the whole thing. From being dropped off to the airport, to security, to food in the airport, to the comfort levels of the chairs, to the amount of leg room. All of it was better, all of it.

Plus our border is terrible as well. Last year took my family abroad and when we got back to the US my six year old put her little backpack on the scanner too quickly for the Border Guard liking. So the big manly tough guy screamed at my six year old. She proceeded to cry. I wanted to sock him across the face but not as much as I want to avoid a 20 year prison sentence. Next time I will go all Karen and write a letter to go in his file with his badge number. It will make me feel better but fix nothing.

nodding off? time for a bright ad with super saturation and lots of brightness variability, they’ll strobe you into paying attention.

how much do you have to pay to turn the fucking thing off?