Comment by SolidGrue@lemmy.world on United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens

Dude, you can just turn the screen off. Its OK.

Please enter your credit card to disable ads

Screens don’t hit back

It’s a contactless carrier, they already have my card on file.

“If you don’t like it don’t fly”

Seriously just shut up.

Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

Comedy is an art form. You need to commit to the joke.

Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.

Worse, you will be surrounded by them on all sides, as others don’t bother… :-(

I have. It usually stays off until they rig the cabin for final approach. Comes back on for landing but hey, whatever?

I’m getting beaten up for my stance here, but seriously: if all it takes to put you over is some midflight ads the do the rest of us a favor and don’t fly. Take a train or whatever.

Y’all are acting like they’re gonna strap us down and tape our eyes open like that Alex Whasisname kid in A Clockwork Orange. I assure you that doesn’t happen for another 22 years in this timeline (give or take).

People like you constantly give corporations an inch because “it’s not a big deal” and here we are.

Hot take. Tell me more about me?

I saw you eat food dropped in a toilet.

I don’t think you’re being beaten up for it. I certainly am not beating you up for it. But usually, yeah, the screen does come back on during the flight. I think they turn it back on automatically every time there’s an announcement. As somebody who finds screens like that very distracting and even migraine-inducing (the “busyness” of that sort of thing is a big trigger), it’s really frustrating.

Where can I book a train to Europe?

Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.

Let’s have you build a train line to Europe eh?

I honestly couldn’t care less how many adverts they show me, they can have a constant stream of adverts the whole flight if it means that some shitty corporation is paying a portion of my travel coats.

People really need to grow up about stuff like this, if you don’t want adverts then pay for a premium service - I’m poor, I’ll accept the adverts.

That money isn’t subsidizing your flight cost, it’s increasing corporate profits.

Here’s the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

If you think you’re going to get a better rate for having ads, you’re fooling yourself. They’ll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn’t affected by ads most of the time.

This is thinking based on emotion not reality, most of the internet is free because of adverts so your belief that it’s not used to lower prices is clearly silly. Yes companies love profit but they often increase profits by lowering prices to attract more business, it’s a perfectly valid business model to use adverts to reduce the cost to the customer and increase customer volume.

You can if you’re a Party member

You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out

But that’s not the point, it still sucks

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