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Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 67 points 1 week ago

Feel like ads in cars should be illegal, but the US doesn't have a government that believes in good things.

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

If it’s like the other cars with this same shit then it only plays when fully stopped.

[-] darkmarx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

And that somehow makes it better?

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I never said it was an improvement.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Better, as in less bad, but not good.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago
[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Absolutely fucking not.

My attention is not free and they have no fucking right to my attention.

And second, fuck them for thinking they do.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It's obviously better not to show ads while you're driving. How could anyone think otherwise?

The question was if it is better to show ads only when the car is stopped. Your answer is for a different question: should it show ads at all. Being angry at me isn't going to make Dodge stop this stupid idea.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's not true. Our government cares about something. They care about ads.

[-] jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 week ago

And that's a good thing?

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