• reversebananimals@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      “If you don’t like it don’t fly”

      Seriously just shut up.

      Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

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      5 months ago

      Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.

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          People like you constantly give corporations an inch because “it’s not a big deal” and here we are.

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          I don’t think you’re being beaten up for it. I certainly am not beating you up for it. But usually, yeah, the screen does come back on during the flight. I think they turn it back on automatically every time there’s an announcement. As somebody who finds screens like that very distracting and even migraine-inducing (the “busyness” of that sort of thing is a big trigger), it’s really frustrating.

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          5 months ago

          Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.

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          I honestly couldn’t care less how many adverts they show me, they can have a constant stream of adverts the whole flight if it means that some shitty corporation is paying a portion of my travel coats.

          People really need to grow up about stuff like this, if you don’t want adverts then pay for a premium service - I’m poor, I’ll accept the adverts.

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            5 months ago

            That money isn’t subsidizing your flight cost, it’s increasing corporate profits.

          • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            5 months ago

            Here’s the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

            If you think you’re going to get a better rate for having ads, you’re fooling yourself. They’ll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn’t affected by ads most of the time.

            • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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              This is thinking based on emotion not reality, most of the internet is free because of adverts so your belief that it’s not used to lower prices is clearly silly. Yes companies love profit but they often increase profits by lowering prices to attract more business, it’s a perfectly valid business model to use adverts to reduce the cost to the customer and increase customer volume.

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        5 months ago

        You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out

        But that’s not the point, it still sucks