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Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

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Re: Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

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Post by rpcope1 »

jklinger410 wrote: post #57

Somewhat tangential: JEEP products that are not the traditional Wrangler and all of it's myriad variations are most likely the worst American vehicles ever made. I'm talking the Grand Cherokee, Wagoneer, Compass, etc. This crap is being tried on that vehicle because JEEP drivers are some of the least discerning car buyers on the market. A perfect test bed for the most toxic features American manufacturers can imagine…

Jeep hasn't built anything worth a damn since Chrysler picked it up off of AMC in its dying breaths, and MOPAR has not ever built anything that wasn't a flaming pile of shit for many, many decades. It's a shame, you'll never see another useful great vehicle like an XJ, YJ or CJ-8, and if you try (like Mahindra did with the Roxor) and it looks too much like a "Jeep" you'd better bet Chrysler is going to shut that shit down quick.

You should have said that people who buy Fiat Chrysler are basically blind and undiscerning because the whole company basically operates on generating total garbage with few exceptions (some Cummins powered trucks be among those).

Re: Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

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Post by rurp »

This is disgusting. It's already getting hard to find new cars that don't include a bunch of "features" that make the experience worse. Something as greedy and adversarial as turning a personal vehicle into an ad platform is a hard no from me; I will never purchase a car with this included.

My one hope is that there are enough car manufacturers on the market for competition to stifle this. That doesn't work in many areas of tech because they are controlled by a monopoly or duopoly. Chrome is free to dump all over users because Google leveraged their other monopolies to drive out competition and gain a browser monopoly.

This kind of anti-consumer behavior that tech pioneered has really lowered my opinion of the whole industry.

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Post by elaus »

rikafurude21 wrote: post #43
bryanlarsen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you can't buy a "dumb TV" They are sold as monitors and digital signage displays and cost a lot more than a consumer TV.

Every TV is essentially a dumb TV until you connect it to the internet. I bought a cheap TV and only use the remote to turn it on and have it connected via HDMI.

Not sure if they are a reality or just a MBA's wet dream yet: TVs with integrated eSIM to not even require WIFI for transmitting usage data and ads.

Re: Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

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Post by sumeno »

gruez wrote: post #102
striking wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but at least buses and trains are accountable to the voter in one way or another... and I can still wear headphones.

You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads. The best you can do with ads on buses and trains is show up in your next city council meeting and raise a stink, only to be told that the transit agency signed a 10 year contract and can't pull out.

> You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads.

For now.

I've yet to see an advertisement on a bus or train that wasn't easily ignorable. It's a lot harder to ignore things when you're driving

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Post by LinuxBender »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #70
stragies wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or worse, some hacker/government locks your car doors, and turns your car into a remote-controlled 2-ton 140mph ground-to-ground projectile, while you're driving your kids to school.

i unironically believe this has been used to assassinate people in the united states

I believe that was the case with Anne Heche. She was producing a documentary on child trafficking and was going to name names. Her car drove her into a building. The ring videos and audio can not be unseen or unheard. She was trying hard to overpower the car with the brakes which were not yet drive-by-wire. The media immediately said drugs and alcohol were involved yet the toxicology report showed her 100% clean.

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Post by spudlyo »

kccqzy wrote: post #39
ericmay wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Car-only infrastructure which is pervasive in America is a liability to the country and the economy. I can just not buy a TV and my life is great. Probably better. I can't not buy a car except in a few select locations if I want to participate in the economy. That's both dangerous and fragile.

That has little to do with advertising though. When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.

Whenever AR glasses with ad-blockers are available, I will be an early adopter.

Re: Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

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Post by bluGill »

iAMkenough wrote: post #73
ypeterholmes wrote: post #2

Advertising has gotten out of control. What's bizarre to me is that the people violating us are literally the ones who want something from us. Is there no way to boycott anyone advertising in our car? AND the car itself of course.

> Is there no way to boycott anyone advertising in our car? AND the car itself of course. The obvious boycott would be to sell the car and never buy a Jeep again. Until the next car you buy is also updated to include ads and quietly sell tracking data they've collected about your family, so then you sell that car and never buy from that manufacturer again either. Then before you know it, you end up buying an American…

The important part is getting others to do so as well. You alone don't matter.

The big players here are KBB, edmunds, consumer reports, and all the car magazines. If they scream manufactures will listen.

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