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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 80 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Over promise and under deliver, the musk way. Fucking clown ass Nazi piece of shit. I know there’s not a lot of viable alternatives, but if you’re using a Nazi service, I lack sympathy when the Nazi raises your prices.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Some places have to use starlink sadly, like the ones in remote zones and islands in the middle of the ocean

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Meanwhile the airlines rolling out "free Starlink WiFi" without so much as an asterix about who provides and controls the bits you're sending through it.

Imagine how much data musk will be able to glean getting free access to travelers internet habits and probably a lot more.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They must always know where we are, but we must never know where they are. Funny how that happened while lawmakers stood idly by.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 5 hours ago

stood idly by

funny way of saying 'actively participated'

[–] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 29 points 15 hours ago

If they're offering "free Starlink WiFi" they are telling you who is offering it. If they are offering "free inflight WiFi" they are hiding it

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

I was just on a flight with that, and it was ass. I got a few text messages in and out, but that was about it.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I think most of the data going to and from your phone is gonna be https, I doubt it would provide much value tbh

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Unfortunately there's still plenty of unencrypted traffic from normal usage (e.g. DoH is still fairly rare).