Free Hawaii Flight Wifi? Try 5+ hrs Of Ads + Data-Mining

Is Hawaii Flight WiFi Really Free? | 5 Hrs Of Marketing

We’re starting to understand what airlines mean by Free Hawaii WiFi. While we aren’t surprised, the reality isn’t all rosy.

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9 thoughts on “Is Hawaii Flight WiFi Really Free? | 5 Hrs Of Marketing”

  1. BOH Guys;

    On JetBlue flights in order to use the “free wifi” you must login in through your Amazon account (or create one at that time).

    MJ

  2. “… By integrating with brands our customers know and love” People actually love a brand? sheesh.

    That being said, create a “burner” account just for logging into WiFi and then no worries about what data may be mined.

    1. Ah, but if a lot of peeps do it, they will then correlate/geo-locate to your seat and identify you that way. Or more simply, if you use the same burner-account across two or more flights, they will correlate you that way. Isn’t data science wonderful?

  3. Aloha. “Free” is actually a Latin word, loosely translated means “ya right”. I have an account with an inflight provider and I don’t mind spending ten bucks for the service when available. When there’s no service, like over the oceans, I have hundreds of books and reports on my reader. There’s even a thing I saw called a “book”, but I’ll explain that another time…
    Mahalo

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  4. As the saying goes…… ‘if it sounds too good to be true’ …… No thank you. I can play solitaire on my phone, ha ha ha There are always the good old Real books with paper pages to keep me occupied. :0)

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  5. BOE,

    As long as we can opt out, no big deal.

    It cost money to install,implement and maintain any system, including Wi-Fi. The customer/user always pays. And, that’s how it has to be.

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