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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by schmookeeg on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:41PM (#47429690)
More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?
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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by kevincox on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:43PM (#47429719)
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.)
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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by theultdev on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:15PM (#47430184)
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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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by LoganDark on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:08PM (#47434415)
> But the person sitting next to you can see everything.

Privacy filters are a thing.

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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by theultdev on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:42PM (#47443936)
you're literally an inch away from someone.

they are essentially looking head on at it.

that may work for business class, but not economy.

privacy filters aren't magic.

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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by tjoff on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:13PM (#47430150)
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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