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United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Where's my duct tape and mini tool

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Can I pull a boomer move and keep touching the screen repeatedly harder even though it's not a touch screen??? I MUST HAVE THIS, WHY IS IPAD NOT WORKING?!!!!!!!!

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This just confirms my decision to never fly United again

[–] davidwkeith@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

Or be jealous.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (12 children)

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.

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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 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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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 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.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

This is an interesting idea!

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is a matter of time before they figure out how to do targeted ads in dreams.

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