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I noticed some popular flight tracking websites flightradar24 and flightaware have disabled sharing location information per owner request. I did find one site

I noticed some popular flight tracking websites flightradar24 and flightaware have disabled sharing location information per owner request. I did find one site that still shares flight data and flight history. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af&lat=32.124&lon=-78.055&zoom=3.1&showTrace=2022-12-14 https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af&lat=32.124&lon=-...

SXX 4y ago
Reason was explained in other topic. FlightRadar and few other services use information provided by US FAA thus they must follow FAA rules regarding disabling information sharing. ADS-B Exchange use information gathered by private individuals and there is no law that require to hide something.
- sorenjan 4y ago
  Flightradar and other sites have a vast network of receivers. Almost everyone that feeds ADS-B Exchange probably feeds to FR24 as well, and FR24 have even more receivers. They also use radar data in North America, I guess that's the FAA provided data. If they wanted to they could probably do without it since they have so many receivers enabling them pretty good MLAT, but they probably prefer to not provoke FAA. They have mentioned that they don't want governments to encrypt ADS-B or regulate it in other ways, so by self regulating they hope to be left alone. "Information about a small number of flights may be limited or blocked based on requests from owners or operators via third-party services, such as the FAA LADD. Some high profile aircraft, such as Air Force One are not displayed. Most other aircraft subject to restriction are shown as anonymized by aircraft type." https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works
  - m348e912 4y ago
    That link you mentioned stated that certain planes (including business jets) do not have ADS-B or are not visible on FlightRadar24. Thought that was interesting.

SXX 4y ago

Reason was explained in other topic. FlightRadar and few other services use information provided by US FAA thus they must follow FAA rules regarding disabling information sharing. ADS-B Exchange use information gathered by private individuals and there is no law that require to hide something.

sorenjan 4y ago
Flightradar and other sites have a vast network of receivers. Almost everyone that feeds ADS-B Exchange probably feeds to FR24 as well, and FR24 have even more receivers. They also use radar data in North America, I guess that's the FAA provided data. If they wanted to they could probably do without it since they have so many receivers enabling them pretty good MLAT, but they probably prefer to not provoke FAA. They have mentioned that they don't want governments to encrypt ADS-B or regulate it in other ways, so by self regulating they hope to be left alone. "Information about a small number of flights may be limited or blocked based on requests from owners or operators via third-party services, such as the FAA LADD. Some high profile aircraft, such as Air Force One are not displayed. Most other aircraft subject to restriction are shown as anonymized by aircraft type." https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works
- m348e912 4y ago
  That link you mentioned stated that certain planes (including business jets) do not have ADS-B or are not visible on FlightRadar24. Thought that was interesting.