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United Airlines launches personalized ads on seat-back screens (www.cnbc.com)
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The carrier on Friday said it launched a media platform to serve travelers personalized advertisements on seat-back screens and in its app, among other platforms, as it seeks to leverage customer data.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Well that is obvious. Btw many phones have file share mode as the default now. Make sure you change it. But how about other cases? I don't really understand. Are digital profiles officially tied to the ID and plane tickets now?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Or do you have an UA credit card?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Oh so they just use the data from the credit card like age and gender? It's still bad but not that much of a problem as if they had access to all Google, Apple, Meta and other kinds of analytics and behavior data. Though I heard some banks do buy that data so I wouldn't be surprised if they gave it to the airline. Well I know the era of total surveillance is coming. The EU may fight it but the US doesn't seem to have any desire to do so. That's unfortunate but only a big amount of active people can change it. Also what is an UA card?

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