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Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
Submitted 3 months ago by cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
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octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Video showing ads on dashboard.
Video itself starts with a QR code ad embedded into it. And it’s on Youtube so who knows how many ads I skipped with uBlock…
Adception.
anubis119@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CAT is on it. wiki.rossmanngroup.com/…/Stellantis_In_Car_Advert…
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Oh this is the first time I’ve seen this wiki in the wild, neat!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So does this mean I can stop hearing about stupid “Jeep Culture” bullshit now?
SamboT@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People can like jeeps bro calm down
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cool. What does that have to do with the whole “Jeep Culture” thing?
wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
There will soon come a time when I am only able to shop for a new car at a junkyard.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Get a horse, gonna be cheaper it seems. And you don’t have to pay for heated seats haha
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Have you seen the prices for oats these days!?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 months ago
This is why used cars are so dang expensive, it seems like automobile quality has been in a free fall since 2008. The end user experience gets worse while the price goes up.
jmf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Early 2000s jap cars are unkillable, surplus of parts, and are not tracker spyware nests. Great little things for sure. My 90s turboed volvo is a far more temperamental beast, but I cherish her quirks :)
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Right now my car is an 84. With a back up 86 truck. I used to have a 2011 subaru, but hit an prairie antelope with it. If I had my pick I think 1990-2008 Japanese cars are the sweet spot.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Enshitification.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Love my 2013 Honda. Haven’t driven anything newer
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 months ago
That’s newer then I would go but yeah at least Honda seems to be behind on the complete shit curve.
SirMaple__@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
The really funny thing is that the only reason I even know about the Streisand Effect is because of Barbara Streisand.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I don’t understand how this is related to the Streisand Effect. The Streisand Effect is when you try to suppress unflattering info about yourself, and in the process you call attention to it, so now everyone knows. But we didn’t learn about this through Jeep trying to suppress the info, we just learned about it from people who saw the ads.
yeather@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That is the photo Barbara Streisand attempted to have removed from the internet, the effeft gets its name from this event and photo.
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
This looks like a Luigi level threat
menemen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They really do take 80s and 90s dystopian movies as inspiration. Almost funny how ridiculous unimaginatively evil that are.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anyone know any brand that doesn’t pull this kind of shit in their cars?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
A bicyce at this point.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And the best part is you probably have local anarchists who want to help you learn to maintain it
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anything made before ~2015. You have a lot of great cars to choose from.
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
1999 Honda Civic.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sorry honey, I had to crash the Honda.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I bought a 2025 Kia Sportage before the new Trumpflation taxes went into effect. No ads at all. I would have been pretty damn mad to see ads. Weird that Jeep has decided to self destruct.
ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
This webpage is broken. It doesn’t have content until you allow thrid-party scripts.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Sorry I don’t check if a webpage requires 3rd party scripts before I post them for you. Leave it blocked and moved on I guess?
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wonder if disconnecting the car’s cell antenna would prevent this crap from loading.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They generally go into limp mode if they cannot report on you.
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean it’s a Jeep. You don’t buy that if you don’t want a limp car, anyways. :P
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Could be like some of those TVs that have baked-in ads. So if you don’t have a data connection, they’ll just play the default ones.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Or there’s an LTE chip soldered in there somewhere…
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Stop 👏 Buying 👏 New 👏 Shit 👏
I could run a whole community on how to recycle, reuse, repurpose. Why the hell are people buying new cars?!
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Make that community. I’ll join up.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Because I’ve seen what people do with their vehicles. I bought my car new 13 years ago and I’ve been able to make sure it’s been properly maintained the entire time and no one else’s crud is all over the interior. I intend to keep it until it falls apart. Prior to that I had a truck I bought used and got maybe 5 years out of it before the transmission died with only medium mileage. I had maintained it but who knows what the person before me did with it.
That said if nothing changes with all this touchscreen infotainment shit I don’t know what I’ll do. I’ve hated every new vehicle I’ve been in the last few years.
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lol! Imagine in 5pm traffic!..
Broom! Broom!
Stop!
Hey! You driving! The university of Phoenix has a degree just for you!
Go!
Stop!
And wells Fargo can help! Our loans are only 8% Apr!
Go!
Stop!
Pah pah pah pah…I’m loving it! At McDonalds we brought back the stegosaur burger! PST! Its actually crock!
Go!..
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Sounds like the Jeep corporate execs should be charged with all the crimes that result from road rage incidents involving people who own Jeep products.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 months ago
alcoholic_chipmunk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’ll make it cheaper for awhile to justify it to the public and government and then slowly raise the price so that you’re paying full price AND watching ads.
lordgreylock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Fuck this shit. I don’t even want to ever buy a newer car these days. Too much invasive bullshit.
ironcrotch@aussie.zone 3 months ago
lmao wtf
shininghero@pawb.social 3 months ago
Please do. But keep in mind, when I invariably get jump-scared by your infotainment system and crack my head on the car ceiling, I’m going to turn your revenue stream into my personal early retirement pension.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Oh don’t be silly. It was YOU who got distracted! The laws are for thee, not me!
-The corporation, probably
Punchshark@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m curious what the customer agreement is for this? Is it in relatively plain sight or is this buried deep in the purchase agreement
Foni@lemm.ee 3 months ago
On unrelated topics, I am now radicalized and I hope that capitalism falls violently
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Don’t worry, our choice for each election is capitalism and cruelty free capitalism, it’s always been a matter of time.
It will always be the case that given enough time a capitalist will find a way to convince the public to vote against self interest just a little, and then the snowball starts rolling.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
If you slam on the brakes it makes the ad extra large
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ok, I’ll bite.
Did OP just time travel 25 years and post something from Slashdot?
OmgItBurns@discuss.online 3 months ago
I mean fark.com is still kicking, last I checked. I feel like some of these old sites are the web equivalent of BIFL products.
Hegz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I was just thinking the slashdot used to be a massive source of traffic across the internet.
And now it’s a sink. How times change.
WereCat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Guess I wont stop then. Kids crossing the road? Too bad, I don’t wanna see the ads just because you have to get to the other side…
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Roku was experimenting with similar stuff so I refuse to connect my Roku tv to WiFi. Will never update it
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Ya, they’ve been getting bad press for a while now. Will never own one of those.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The TVs aren’t a bad value. Gotta get back the the jailbreaking days. If someone released a custom firmware for my Roku tv that made it dumb I wouldn’t use it.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
A Jeep was the worst car I’ve ever had
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Uncle Teddy would definitely not approve of this.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nor cousin luigi…
source_of_truth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Are they adding this shit to cars that didn’t do that already?
dmtalon@infosec.pub 3 months ago
There’s exactly zero chance I’d buy a car that showed me ads.
There was already zero chance I’d buy a Stellantis vehicle anyway after buying a brand new 1999 Dodge Durango that started rusting out sitting on our garage.
And while they did the bare minimum to remove the rust, but they didnt stand behind it. There was no way we were keeping it or buying anything else from them.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Dodge was owned by DaimlerChrysler in 99. I only know that because my family was in the car business and weren’t happy about that merger
dmtalon@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Yep, all connected /same garbage IMHO I was a big DSM (Diamond Star Motors) fan back in the mid/late 90’s had a couple AWD Talons.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Meanwhile I used to drive a 99 Chrysler 300m and I swear it was one of the best vehicles I’ve driven. It only died because as an idiot 19 year old I thought the engine temperature gage could wait a day because I had to move into college.
That said it was the last car Chrysler made worth shit