Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
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"Check Engine light on again? Check out the new 2027 Jeep Wagoneer! You'll definitely get more miles out of the new one compared to the 2025 model thats now broken"
"To allow a mechanic to access the oil tank, please subscribe to our Premium Oil Change and Maintenance tier. Only $12.99/month. Your oil tank will remain hermetically sealed until you sign up."
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I thought this was the onion for a moment
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I read a post somewhere where someone started getting this after they went over 36000 miles
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Now hold on there, I'd let them do the ads and the vehicle tracking bs if the car was nice and it was free.
If I'm buying the car, there's no fucking way.
If it's a Jeep the screen and audio might break on their own anyway
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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.
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I wonder if disconnecting the car’s cell antenna would prevent this crap from loading.
They generally go into limp mode if they cannot report on you.
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Are they adding this shit to cars that didn't do that already?
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Anyone know any brand that doesn't pull this kind of shit in their cars?
1999 Honda Civic.
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I was looking for a car a few months ago and was looking at newer models, used, but mostly less than a decade old. Then I started reading about all the tracking and such.
I gave in to my inner teenager and bought a 2001 Porsche 911.
The entertainment center can connect via Bluetooth but there's no Android Auto, no navigation. It has Sirius XM but I never had a subscription to it and never will.
I might add a backup camera but that's it. My phone is more than enough tracking, even with as much of it shut off as possible.
This is the way.
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I thought this was the onion for a moment
Furthermore: Slashdot still exists?
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Anyone know any brand that doesn't pull this kind of shit in their cars?
Anything made before ~2015. You have a lot of great cars to choose from.
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1999 Honda Civic.
Sorry honey, I had to crash the Honda.
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Hey, you might want to team up with Sony...
DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!
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Holy shit. Luigi.
It's only terrorism when poor people do it.
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DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!
Roll verification coal to continue
FTFY
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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"
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I was looking for a car a few months ago and was looking at newer models, used, but mostly less than a decade old. Then I started reading about all the tracking and such.
I gave in to my inner teenager and bought a 2001 Porsche 911.
The entertainment center can connect via Bluetooth but there's no Android Auto, no navigation. It has Sirius XM but I never had a subscription to it and never will.
I might add a backup camera but that's it. My phone is more than enough tracking, even with as much of it shut off as possible.
Damn, sweet ride dude! Congrats!
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"Speed", but instead of a vehicle exploding, it's to avoid ads.
Officer, "Why'd you run that red light?"
Me, "If I hear the Meow Mix jingle one more time I'm gonna snap!"
Jeep, having heard you mention a product, dutifully plays the relevant ad.
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This webpage is broken. It doesn't have content until you allow thrid-party scripts.
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I wonder if disconnecting the car’s cell antenna would prevent this crap from loading.
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."
