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bs7280 4 hours ago

United gives you free access only if you are a mileageplus member I think?

Regardless, having free high speed internet on a flight will motivate me as a consumer every time.

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theultdev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Joining United MileagePlus is completely free, you just sign up.

About the same work as filling out a hotel wifi login.

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kevincox 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Completely free as in you don't have to give them money.

But you need to give personal information which also has value.

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schmookeeg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?

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kevincox 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Probably, because you are now associating your internet browsing with your personal information. (I don't know if they have the sophistication to actually do this, but it is very possible.)

	▲	theultdev 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The people concerned with that hypothetical can use a VPN. At most they could see domains, ip addresses, timestamps, and http-only sites (are there any left?) But the person sitting next to you can see everything.

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tjoff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Regardless one of the conditions surely is giving them permissions to sell this to starlink as and everyone else. So whether the information is the same is probably irrelevant, how they are using it is.

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chronic20001 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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