Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop - Slashdot
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"In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report: In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stell...
    • pound_heap@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      FAKE NEWS!!! Why would you want to pull an ancient lever mechanism if you can do it in a few taps on the touch screen. Sure, unless you have a premium subscription, you’ll have to watch a short video from our partners, tailored individually just for you.

  • WereCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days 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.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Roku was experimenting with similar stuff so I refuse to connect my Roku tv to WiFi. Will never update it

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Ya, they’ve been getting bad press for a while now. Will never own one of those.

      • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days 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 would use it.

  • Foni@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 days ago

    On unrelated topics, I am now radicalized and I hope that capitalism falls violently

    • PresidentCamacho@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 days 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.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Want there also something about showing ads while your show is paused now too?

      I’m ready to go back to kodi.

        • belit_deg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          12 days ago

          I’m lost for words.

          …what if the whole family is watching? Does everyone have to raise their hands and yell “McDonalds”? Including the kids?

          This might just as well be used in “smart” fridges. “Do this corporate dance to get 20% off your next Corn Flakes”

            • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.orgEnglish
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              11 days ago

              I haven’t seen an ad in like 15 years or so (at home) and i already find them incredibly dystopian and weird. I don’t really understand how people put up with that right now, but it kind of tells me that they would actually do the laola wave and yell pepsi at their screen. I found my old VHS collection the other day and watched karate kid that i recorded as a child. I think it had 2 ad breaks who were really short, and back then we thought that it’s getting a bit much with the ads.

              • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                11 days ago

                You raise a good point.

                I’m much the same in that I just refuse to watch anything with ads. They really are dystopian and weird.

                I also get that same feeling when I see someone just grinding through youtube ads, but people that do that just don’t seem to have any awareness of the interaction - it’s just part of the show.

                The weirdest of all is when people (usually brave browser enthusiasts?) try to claim that “some” ads are actually a good thing because it makes them aware of some product they actually desire which they wouldn’t have been aware of otherwise. I’ll take blissful ignorance thanks.

                So yes, I can imagine people doing this stuff without really thinking about it.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Maybe we just throw an ad on the windshield… Like a little one… Off to the side?

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    There are no high end middle class cars now. Used be if you got an audi, merc, beamer etc. You were part of an in group where youngot extras. Now you spend 80K and they want you to subscribe for cruise control and AC. Lambourghini and porsche dropped back to entrr the market and only brought their badge.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I wonder if disconnecting the car’s cell antenna would prevent this crap from loading.

    Does this car have Android Auto/Carplay? Hopefully while that is active you can’t see the ad either.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      12 days 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.

      Edit: I imagine that the car to prevent you from unplugging the antenna would probably do the classic, “I haven’t had a data connection in X amount of time, therefore I cannot verify the security of the device, so we’re going to prevent the use of autoplay.”

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Furthermore: Slashdot still exists? And it still has an active community in the comments!?

      Lemmy alone hasn’t been enough to replace reddit for me; I should see if I still remember my old password…