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I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)

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Post by craftyguy »

expertentipp wrote: post #56
justboxing wrote: post #34

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> Do you ever notice that your in-flight magazine has ads? Yes. And on a recent trip to India, it got even worse. SpiceJet (domestic airlines) has ads on the back of the headrest of EVERY SEAT. Physical paper printed Ads! So you are staring at it for the entirety of your trip. I kid you not.

Ads on the back of he seat in an airplane are very common in European airlines. One of the most obnoxious, intrusive, literally in-your-face ads as it’s 40cm from one’s face with no real option to get away from it.

Use a page from the inflight magazine (or the safety card) to cover the screen. I do this on flights that insist on keeping the screen on no matter what.

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

dorchadas wrote: post #156
tdhoot wrote: post #49

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This is common worldwide, I think. Ryanair in Europe and Spirit in the US come to mind. Spirit actually sells ads on everything it seems, even on the exterior of the plane: https://skift.com/2014/03/11/spirit-airlines-brings-advertis...

Maybe it's just the flight I was on, but I don't remember seeing ads on RyanAir on either of my flights this summer.

Ryanair wouldn't pay for the screens to show you ads ;)

They do, however, upsell you in person by making some hate-my-job contracted flight attendants go through the cabin no less than three times trying to sell various things to you.

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Post by [deleted] »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #44
justboxing wrote: post #34

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> Do you ever notice that your in-flight magazine has ads? Yes. And on a recent trip to India, it got even worse. SpiceJet (domestic airlines) has ads on the back of the headrest of EVERY SEAT. Physical paper printed Ads! So you are staring at it for the entirety of your trip. I kid you not.

Wait until screens get cheap enough... you'll have 4k ads rolling on each screen that are tailored from your name in your ticket.

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Re: I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)

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Post by fapjacks »

justboxing wrote: post #34
pixelmonkey wrote: post #27

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This does happen in other places. Do you ever notice that your in-flight magazine has ads? You've already paid for the flight. Your in-theater movie kicks off with trailers and previews -- you have already paid for the movie ticket. And so on.

> Do you ever notice that your in-flight magazine has ads? Yes. And on a recent trip to India, it got even worse. SpiceJet (domestic airlines) has ads on the back of the headrest of EVERY SEAT. Physical paper printed Ads! So you are staring at it for the entirety of your trip. I kid you not.

The single most awful thing about flying with Hawaiian Airlines is that they sold out years ago to advertisers. The flight attendants read commercials to the passengers during the safety brief. And lately, there have been some credit card companies advertising this way and so the flight attendants will literally walk up and down the aisles giving every passenger a credit card application. It is foul and atrocious. Just charge $10 more per seat, you goblins.

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Post by mianos »

jackvalentine wrote: post #143
mianos wrote: post #93

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Funny thing is I removed mine when I got my new car home. When I took my car in for a service it came back with new plate surround.

My car was from a dealer that went bust "Ward Subaru", after a service at a non-dealer service centre it came back with "Doncaster Subaru" frames on it!

Mine was a Subaru too. It must be some policy world wide.

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Post by IcePic »

kurtisc wrote: post #114
expertentipp wrote: post #86

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Public media and TV in Europe, including the one with the largest budget on the entire planet - German, play and display ads even though are sponsored from compulsory per-household fees.

The BBC often congratulates itself on not showing ads. Instead, every radio show is 50% 'trailers' for other BBC things which you'll hear half a dozen times by the end of a workday.

Swedish public service TV is the same. Guess all the 1-hour shows are down to 27 minutes of content or so, leaving huge gaps needing to be filled with some .. air.

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Post by isostatic »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #167
dorchadas wrote: post #155

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I even flew RyanAir, which I would expect to do something like this, and don't remember seeing the ads either.

They're too busy cramping more seats together at the moment. My last flight (a month ago) featured safety cards glued to the seats.

Ryanair have done that for years. I don't believe their pitch has changed for years either.

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Post by expertentipp »

sixdimensional wrote: post #108
expertentipp wrote: post #90

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I wouldn’t be surprised if the security theatre before boarding and advertisement brainwash after getting to the seats would start to provoke fury sprees among some at least passengers.

Don't worry, they'll be monitoring your sentiment during boarding and passengers that appear agitated will be calmly denied access to board. And you'll be monitored in your seat as well during the flight. It's not Orwell's imagination anymore, it's reality. Only privacy law can stop it, maybe.

> they'll be monitoring your sentiment during boarding and passengers that appear agitated will be calmly denied access to board. And you'll be monitored in your seat as well during the flight.

Disappointing is that this is the more likely outcome, rather than easing the sensory overload, stress, and discomfort.

Re: I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)

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Post by isostatic »

isostatic wrote: post #100
expertentipp wrote: post #56

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Ads on the back of he seat in an airplane are very common in European airlines. One of the most obnoxious, intrusive, literally in-your-face ads as it’s 40cm from one’s face with no real option to get away from it.

I've flown LH, BA and FI in Europe this year and don't recall any back of seat adverts There are some in the on board magazines I suppose, I don't read them though, why would I?

Coincidently I just boarded a short haul China Southern plane (CZ) from Beijing to Seoul

I assume this is an advert. There aren't any in business or first.

https://i.postimg.cc/X7XpF2Th/IMG-2244.jpg

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