That's when you bring your own tablet with some downloaded movies.

I mean, yeah, it's conceivable that someone could try that. It is also conceivable that it would fail miserably.

Nah, that's when you bring you "I'm paying attention"-mask to pretend you're paying attention.

So you're wearing a mask to pretend to be watching an ad so you don't have to actually watch the movie that you want to keep watching?

It is also conceivable that it becomes the new normal and we slide further into our dystopian capitalist future.

Sure we can conceive of nearly anything, but it's not like airlines can realistically stop people from bringing their own devices on planes and watching what they want. That's always going to be the alternative if the in-seat entertainment gets too shitty.

Spotify already does that, except with volume.

If you turn down your volume too much on your phone, it pauses the advert and demands to raise volume to continue.

But you can pay spotify to have no ads, which makes spotify good in my book.

I wouldn't even mind, except when you're sampling trailers and watching movies on a long flight it sure gets annoying to watch the same 5 or 6 ads in a row for the 3rd or 6th time. And then again on the return flight.