Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight
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DuckDuckGo offers a nice relay service; you get a duck.com email address that mails through to your regular email, but it strips out all the trackers and other bullshit. It's good for situations like that.
Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.
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Yes, but now the car can't pull data to operate the gas tank.
Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?
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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.
They'll see the sales of the Charger tank and will conclude that people just don't want muscle cars, which is sad because in the next few years I was thinking about getting one.
Oh well, what can you do.
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Welp, my days of not buying Dodge cars seem to be coming to a middle.
Fuck this made me giggle
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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.
This is like shooting a hole in the bottom of the boat so the leaking water has somewhere to go out.
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Seriously! My 2003 has a CD player and a tape deck
My ‘15 car is amazing except for the fact that it only has slow-ass laggy Bluetooth and NO AUX JACK
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Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.
Pro-tip: Fastmail integrates with 1Password to generate random emails and save them.
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I thought they discontinued the challenger in 1986. The whole brand kinda blew up.
Theres a core memory! Those 80s challengers were real pieces of shit. Ignoring that, challenger space craft have about the same longevity. Too soon?
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Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?
I can feel the sarcasm but it would be remiss to ignore the fact that a lot of manufacturers are trying out subscription models. I would like to think of HP here and there ink service they offer with their printers but for cars.
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If you disconnect the car’s cellular network, do the ads go away?
If you can find an antenna it can be blocked or disabled. Basic instructions for a faraday cage can be found very easy.
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Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?
gas-as-a-subscription service. For $300 a month you can get gas at select service stations at no cost to you. Terms and conditions apply.
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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.
I’ve been debating getting a new car after paying a ton to fix up my old one but now I think I’ll keep her forever.
Anybody got a lead on a rebuilt turbo for a 2.0L TSI?
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If this ever happens to any car I buy, it'd be going right back to the dealer.
I bet you might have a court case if you could prove that the dealer had disabled this advertising “feature” during your test drive.
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Fuck this made me giggle
For that rhyme you deserve a nickel!
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Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.
Use addy.io and support an open source dev!
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Where are others confirming this? Not in the article.
Im in a challenger every week and have never seen an ad on the screen ever.
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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.
This is old and they’ve already said it’s a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.
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Hornet, Journey, Charger. That’s it. Hornet is a piece of cheap, charger has ads. Journey…?
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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.
You know, I always expected Tesla to be the first to do this kind of shit, but never underestimate Stellantis's commitment to be at the bottom.
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This is old and they’ve already said it’s a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.
"It's just a bug, trust me bro"
Yeah OK huge corporation. The followup question is why this mechanism exists at all if it was never intended to be used in this fashion.
