Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨KayLeadfoot@fedia.io⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://fuelarc.com/cars/popup-ads-in-your-pickup-truck-ram-trucks-now-feature-scammy-ads-on-the-center-display/

Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How is this street legal? Can’t use you phone but can have popup ads?

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- freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This vehicle shouldn’t be street legal for regular folk based on its shape and height, software is just a minor detail.
  
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- kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It is so bad. The passenger can’t even fix the nav, at least not in the Chevy I just rented.
  
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- OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s okay cuz it makes some rich guy money
  
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  - TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I'm concerned it's not making that person enough money.
    
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- Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh no don’t worry it’s fine cause it’s only at start up. If we just keep moving the bar of what is acceptable everything is fine.
  
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phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Driver distraction is a leading cause of accidents, including fatal ones. This is a total dealbreaker, should be illegal, and should result in Chrysler getting sued into nonexistence.

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RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Apart from how insane it is to put obtrusive ads on a car dashboard, having to link your phone to your car and then call a phone number to opt out of touchscreen display ads is 🤯

There is going to be a reason that they’ve set it up like that.

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- pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Someday in a few years there will be an accident in the opt out service that routes 95% of attempts into a 500 error screen. All they have to do is underpay and never check on the server admin for that service for years until they don’t care.
  
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- frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It wasn’t asking them to pair their phone to call the number to opt out, it was asking them to pair their phone so they could call the number to buy parts for their truck. You’d have to manually dial the number to opt out.
  
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  - RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    When calling that number, the caller will need somekind of proof that they are in control of the car that they are trying to opt out of ads. Afaik, the easiest way to accomplish that when requiring a phonecall, would be pairing phone and car. But obviously Stellantis is not going for easy with this setup, so this is purely speculation on my part.
    
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- Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  At that point, I would opt out with a hammer.
  
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devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is there a custom firmware to counter this? And is there a way to inject custom firmware into it?
It’s very strange that no one has created a custom firmware to counter this.

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- q@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The difference with vehicles vs computers is everything is so god damn expensive and/or hard to fix. So it will never be worth the risk of failure because I need it to function for emergencies, work and life. RAM wins this round unfortunately and I guess I just have to deal with it for now.
  
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- enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think there is much overlap between the sets of people
  
  buying these cars
  
  having the competence to hack them
  
  having the willingness and finances to potentially brick the car
  
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- Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The problem with that is that insurance companies would gladly interpret that as tampering of the vehicle, voiding your insurance and which will really fuck you up in case of an accident.
  
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Zink@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To me this looks like something potentially worse than just an ad. It looks like this text might be configurable by the dealership. I wonder if all of that gets screened and approved by people that work for the carmaker. Otherwise we will eventually see some funny stuff show up in people’s trucks.

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CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is why I’m not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I’m not buying any new car with “smart” / “built-in” junk.

I don’t know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that’s why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

Now ads? Ffs…

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- Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve just been thoroughly unimpressed by all of the American car brands. Crap vehicles with lousy interiors the lot of them.
  
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- magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My Honda civic 2012’s head unit firmware isn’t that bad.
  
  It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.
  
  Could be a lot worse.
  
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  - krimson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Front left tyre is fucked.” “Your fucking trunk is open.”
    
    Now that I would not mind having shown when starting the car.
    
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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Have you ever seen a smart person driving a DUI1500?

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- Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Imagine getting a bud light ad while you’re blowing into your ignition interlock device
  
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  - pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s perfect timing, since in a moment the car will be started, and they can resume drinking…
    
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funkyfarmington@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Here I am extremely pissed at the people who made it where my dogs trigger fasten seatbelt beeps in a old Tacoma.

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- ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You don’t have a car harness for your dog? Even if you don’t give a shit about your dog dying (I know you do) you should at least be worried about the 50lbs dumbbell flying around the cabin in your next crash.
  
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  - cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What? This is a thing?
    
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darkmogool@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Time to hack / root cars…

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- Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “You wouldn’t download a car (firmware)”. Hold my beer…
  
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Mac@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What did poeple expect when they started putting billboards in cars? I’ve been against this shit from the start.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Feel like ads in cars should be illegal, but the US doesn’t have a government that believes in good things.

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- Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s not true. Our government cares about something. They care about ads.
  
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  - jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And that’s a good thing?
    
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- zewm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If it’s like the other cars with this same shit then it only plays when fully stopped.
  
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  - A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Which will result in even more people not coming to a complete stop if they think they can get away with it, and that will result in more accidents.
    
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  - darkmarx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And that somehow makes it better?
    
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SpoonyBard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Eventually someone is going to get the idea that hospitals should start installing chips and screens into the skin of newborns and it either displays ads or it only cost $150k to have it removed. Thanks for having your baby at our hospital. The ads help pay for our CEO’s 4th mansion.

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- funkyfarmington@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Your dreams DON’T have advertisements?
  
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sundray@lemmus.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Well, you bought a Dodge Ram, so we know you’re gullible as hell. Now to let the advertisers have their way with you.”

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veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Would upgrading to an aftermarket display system be capable of avoiding this?

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- Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is it even possible to replace the head units on deeply integrated cars like this?
  
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- onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, replacing the head unit would stop it.
  
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obinice@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Good. I’ve seen those RAM vehicles, they’re all american “tiny penis wagons” as I like to call them. Ridiculously pointlessly gigantic vehicles, all the better for running down children and guzzling petrol.

The tossers who drive those don’t deserve good things.

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- Meissnerscorpsucle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I find it realy hard to tow 20,000 pounds of hay or horses with a ford edge, so I have a 2500 6.7 and drive it only when towing. just because people dont live the same lifestyle as you and need the same gear as you does not invalidate their needs.
  
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- Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Huh it’s funny my 2011 3500 ram 6.7l fully loaded bed get about the same if not better fuel economy as my 2023 toyota highlander with a 2.4l 4cylinder. I think you just formed your opinion without much experience of shit that goes on around you and are just regurgitating things you have read online.
  
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- FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean yeah but yeah nah. I’m all for blaming the meatbags who buy this shit for fun but there are still enough people who buy entry-level RAMs as work trucks (might even be a good choice for all I know).
  
  Besides, if Stellantis is continuing to get away with it other brand might catch on… I can totally see VW or BMW pull this crap.
  
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- Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I believe the Dodge Ram had the highest drunk driver rate for several years in a row (maybe still does). So yeah…
  
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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We get it, you like to perpetuate toxic masculinity.
  
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  - Hominine@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Such delicious irony.
    
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PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mopar going full idiot

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DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And not even a fucking “don’t show again” option. Either “call” or “remind me later”. So there is no escape. Either take the ad in the ass or it’ll show up again. Fuck that

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- DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you think Stellantis understands consent?
  
  [ ] Yes
  [ ] Ask me again in 2 weeks
  
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  - DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This genuinely stressed me out. 😂
    
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yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“it’s an upgrade, it’s a feature!”, “no other car have so awesome ads like we do, buy our products!”, “step into the future now”, “now powered by awesome ai!”, “everyone wants that, You should too!”…

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darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s kind of sweet that they write that you need at least RAM 1500 to get these ads in your truck, so that the solution simply is to install less RAM in your truck if you don’t want the ads. (I’ve never owned a truck so I don’t know how much RAM is normal, but 1500 sure sounds like a lot.)

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- possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They were joking.
    
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- PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Boo. Lol
  
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not buying any care made after 2015 ever.

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- seralth@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Unfortunately, they are all pillaging your data in the worst ways. The only solution is to not buy new until.
    
    mozillafoundation.org/…/its-official-cars-are-the…
    
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  - Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Stellantis is barely an American brand
    
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- Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve got a 2010s car and drive a rental in 2023. Really liked the new safety features but fuck all this scummy bullshit.
  
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scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Stellantis will kill EVERY company they build vehicles for.

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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I remember a while ago when this started appearing in chargers and they tried to act like it was an accident.

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Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why do they keep trying to sell us things to improve “my lifestyle.”

My lifestyle is pretty much work, then coming home to do errands, maybe video games. I don’t need tacky truck nuts or whatever they’re selling.

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spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Of course Stellantis was first to do it

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