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Joining United MileagePlus is completely free, you just sign up. About the same work as filling out a hotel wifi login.

• kevincox 6mo ago
  Completely free as in you don't have to give them money. But you need to give personal information which also has value.
  • schmookeeg 6mo ago
    More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?
    • kevincox 6mo ago
      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 6mo ago
        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.
        • LoganDark 6mo ago
          > But the person sitting next to you can see everything. Privacy filters are a thing.
          • theultdev 6mo ago
            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.
    • tjoff 6mo ago
      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.
  • chronic20001 6mo ago
    > But you need to give personal information which also has value. You also give up your personal information when you step outside, take a bus, train, or drive a car. Hell, even if you stay at home, you are giving up information for free that you are NOT outside.
  • raw_anon_1111 6mo ago
    You realize you have to give them the same informaron to even step foot on the plane?
  • bs7280 6mo ago
    That's why I exclusively pay cash and don't show an ID when I fly /s