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Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.

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[–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well let's just wait for the next "hacarthon" and see who can play DOOM on the pop-up first.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Like the ridiculous subscription mouse a few months back, I'd be willing to bite with the right incentives, but those aren't incentives the manufacturer is going to be OK with. I'd take a car with ads, so long as it was sufficiently discounted compared to a normal car. And then I'd look up how to disable the ads.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some day every surface we look at will have advertising on it. Some Day.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly why I wont buy any vehicle with any sort of network connection outside of the CANbus.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Excited to see what cool things people can do with a jailbroken car.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, that's truly horrible, but at least it can distract you from the fact you are in a car like that for some reason. Unless it's an ad for the a newer model.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why can't I find a single image of this?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

... Have you tried looking at the image in the linked article? :,)

I'm real good with hand tools. Not real good with humans. It's this.

https://preview.redd.it/ads-on-the-center-screen-now-thats-wild-v0-wk2i5ihf8n0e1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9dbd8a0ac3d2d2fbabf1bf035fb9a6e864d9a93c

Or what Astro_Plane describes... which is also linked... in the article.

[–] astro_plane@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I saw it on reddit a month ago but it was on some dudes jeep right after his warranty expired. Same car manufacture FYI.

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