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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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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The problem is that you can't fly anonymous. They will always know exactly who you are. But yeah, you can at least try to limit the information on you, but still.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I believe you can use your "official identity" only for stuff that requires identification (like border crossing, business and flights) and create another one for general internet usage and stuff like that. It's much harder in countries that require ID to buy a SIM card though

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the whole of Europe requires ID for SIM cards these days.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It makes sense why they want to do it but it's really sad. I think you still can use the majority of privacy-respecting internet if you host your own email (so you don't need a phone number to register it) but it basically reverts the internet to the 90s because you need knowledge to set up a server and it doesn't let you use almost all of the popular messenger apps, making usage of the "official identity" mandatory to contact most of the people and therefore lose privacy when the situation gets worse

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I wouldn't mind the ID if providers were regulated properly and couldn't harvest user data, but naturally that's not the case 😢 even governments expect to be able to request customer data.

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