BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

I have seen the bar at the top appear with "BMW has a surprise for you" or something, but I always use Android Auto which starts a second later so I have never seen what this was. Still unacceptable.

Re: BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

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Post by WalterGR » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

root-parent wrote: post #6

WalterGR wrote: post #4

13 hours ago: "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising" (consumerrights.wiki) 211 points | 148 comments

I am a good bot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130756

Ha! Thanks.

Re: BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

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Post by egberts1 » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

Where's my sledgehammer?

Re: BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

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Post by voakbasda » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

What a spectacularly efficient means to devalue a once “premium” brand. I guess “good will” didn’t get its own line item on their balance sheet.