@KayLeadfoot "You're either the customer or the product."
Ford: "Let's not be hasty..."
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Well don't worry your brand new Dodge will last about 5-7 years max. So you won't be seeing those ads too long.
They're truly horrible horrible machines. GMC is about the only American brand worth anything and even they suck now.
Honda and Toyota is the way to go anything else and you're just wasting money.
Sucks they don't have super duty trucks for people that need those like hot shotters though.
As a Toyota truck owner, can confirm.
I'm going to start pointing to this when I explain to people why I want "dumb" machines.
I don't want AI to "summarize" my google search, I don't want ads distracting drivers, I don't want a washing machine that needs updates, I don't want my TV to look at me, I want a submissive little machine that does task X.
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I call on all hackers to defeat this parasitic disease from incorporating our everyday lives only to make money for its creators. Ads are a fucking disease and needs to be contrroled from entering our lives without our permission.
I call on all Americans to start the revolution so we can treat the disease instead of the symptoms.
Stellantis is a Dutch group. If we head to Michigan and get the CEO, they'll just appoint a new one... Unless you're suggesting the Americans invade the Netherlands...
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I call on all consumers to buy used old vehicles that don't do shit like this.
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Stellantis doing Stellantis things....
It's remarkable that anyone buys Dodge/Ram/Chrysler/Jeep given how crappy Stellantis has been.
Time to go get a Kei Truck and put an Android tablet in it.
Kei Kei's delivery service.
I sometimes feel shortchanged as an American (no healthcare, FUUUUCK), but I only get real mad about it when I think about how we don't get Hiluxes and Kei trucks.
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When did ads become the one commodity to rule them all. They are used more like a threat rather than information. You have to pay to see them or pay to make them go away. Doesn't make sense. Have adverts replaced gold as the dollar standard? Weird. I guess they are good for money laundering due to the subjective nature of costs for "production", "design" and "talent".
This is why my old shitty 2001 accord will always be best.
Capitalism will innovate!
Capitalism:
Looked at my car radio the other day to see the name of the song playing. Evidently, it was called " injured, get 'xxxx' lawyer."
This is why the argument that paying for something would prevent ads falls apart. If they can squeeze more money out of people then they will, even if those people are paying $80k+ for the damn thing.
Yes I hate that argument and it's not true. Cars are collecting tons of data and we pay for them, people "pay" for Windows one way or another and it's collecting data.
That website isn't one to judge. I opened it up and there's huge ad overlay immediately lol.
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If they can in a crash, they can blame it on the advertisers' distraction. Insurers will love that.
Remind me later.
Hasnt Jeep being doing this since at least last year? Every time you stop at a light or whatever you get an ad for Sirus radio.
It's an ad to call a phone number, are people buying things on the phone like this?
If someone were, it's someone getting the latest model Ram.
The odds of a Ram 1500 driver drunk-dialling the number on the popup ad blocking their backup cam is low... but never zero!
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Real question is what cable or fuse can I pull to disable this?
Bitch all you want about RAM drivers, but this is coming to all cars. Start resisting now.
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I think all people that see that ads need to pickup a phone and call them asking stupid questions and waste their time, they clearly ask you to do that.
So now this is an ad? But when Apple does similar it's just letting you know about services offered. I consider both an ad.
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