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More to consider when selecting an airline. Greedy fuckers, I hope their stock takes a nosedive thanks to this
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.
I requested opt out and they requested my ID. lol! So they’re demanding more info to opt out of info collection.
How are they going to identify who is opting out without being able to match it to the person in the seat..?
Your united data is going to be tied to an email. They could just use that. It's reasonable to see this as further invasiveness, similar to Meta™ account recovery.
Can it ever just stop?
Yes, for a monthly subscription!
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....
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 hear or see shit.
Can't wait to see adds for prostate exams or erectile malfunction on a plane when I get older.
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???