They also encourage you to provide info on yourself (create an account, provide birthday) to even use the screen on the seat back…

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    Plane WiFi is a modern technological marvel and you’re lucky to be able to have it at all.

    Not so long ago sat phones were the domain of the super rich, because they were paying several dollars per minute. Then it was down to 10 dollars for two hours of multiplexed satellite access. And now apparently it’s down to where advertising will work. That’s amazing.

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      I doubt the ads are streamed over the internet, this could easily be done with local storage.

      With a possible quick database update over the internet to log views