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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    Ads themselves are an insult considering the cost of travel. But they’re insulting us all over the place on shit we pay for.

    But personalized ads in view of strangers is full-on absurdly an insult to privacy. Get bent, I hope someone finds a way to display the guitar video and song for the whole plane.

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      I was just pumping gas the other day, and while I’m at it there’s this cellphone speaker music that starts really loudly, like the phone is at 400% audio.

      Motherfucking screen started playing an ad I couldn’t skip. Soon theyre just going to loop audible ads everywhere we go, in public spaces.

      Since then I’ve avoided this brand of gas station and affiliates, but I won’t be able to hide for long.

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        5 months ago

        As you traverse the continent, the same “single” appears looking for love in every town you fly over.

        Edit: then you’re over Nevada and ads switch to “Welcome back! We missed you at Bobs Brothel and Budget Backrubs, swing on by for our returning members discount.”