Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft
Now it's unclear whether the flight information on the ADS-B exchange will remain free to the public. Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old student behind thethat track celebrity jets, said selling the company violates the spirit of the air enthusiast community that's powered the site. He's even calling for a boycott.
Dan Streufert, president and founder of ADS-B Exchange, said in a statement that the deal would"meet the business needs of our users while maintaining our enthusiast roots and unfiltered data." He didn't respond to a request for comment from Insider.more than 9,000 volunteer-run radios, or"feeders," to transmit data from ADS-B-equipped aircraft.
The software was sold for an undisclosed amount. The website has been popularized by Sweeney, who attends the University of Central Florida. Sweeney, like those owned by Musk, Donald Trump, and Taylor Swift. He then sets up bots to automatically upload their flights to Twitter. Sweeney took a jab at JetNet and Streufert for the sale, saying the move undermines the point of creating ADS-B Exchange in the first place."The whole basis of the organization was that it's a community," he told Insider."Everyone is choosing to give their data to make a community server, not to a private equity firm or company that is trying to make money."Meanwhile, Sweeney is calling for feeders to boycott the platform, calling it a"sad day.
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