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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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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Good. I've seen those RAM vehicles, they're all american "tiny penis wagons" as I like to call them. Ridiculously pointlessly gigantic vehicles, all the better for running down children and guzzling petrol.

The tossers who drive those don't deserve good things.

[-] Meissnerscorpsucle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I find it realy hard to tow 20,000 pounds of hay or horses with a ford edge, so I have a 2500 6.7 and drive it only when towing. just because people dont live the same lifestyle as you and need the same gear as you does not invalidate their needs.

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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Remind me later.

[-] kolorafa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] devilish666@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Is there a custom firmware to counter this? And is there a way to inject custom firmware into it?
It's very strange that no one has created a custom firmware to counter this.

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Bill Burr calls it, "driving an iPad"

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

It's Bill Burr's 21st century and we're all just living in it.

He's crushing it on Star Wars stuff, his comedy is on fucking fire, and weirdly he's one of a small axis of Americans (bad word choice lol) who has the backbone to resist our descent into fascism. I agree with him and I fuckin hate it, bring back buttons, I don't' want to drive an iPad.

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

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.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I call on all consumers to buy used old vehicles that don't do shit like this.

[-] ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I call on all Americans to start the revolution so we can treat the disease instead of the symptoms.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Would be the modem. I already do this because of the tracking.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, but where is it, to disconnect?

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It's an ad to call a phone number, are people buying things on the phone like this?

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Stellantis doing Stellantis things....

It's remarkable that anyone buys Dodge/Ram/Chrysler/Jeep given how crappy Stellantis has been.

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

I would raise such hell at the dealership if anything like this happened to me.

But I prefer my cars with NO INTERNET, no touch screens, and very low tech (easier to fix).

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

Apart from how insane it is to put obtrusive ads on a car dashboard, having to link your phone to your car and then call a phone number to opt out of touchscreen display ads is 🤯

There is going to be a reason that they've set it up like that.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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".

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

Here I am extremely pissed at the people who made it where my dogs trigger fasten seatbelt beeps in a old Tacoma.

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[-] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everyday, I wanna ram my car into a building and hope I run over the CEO in their office.

Now the hardest part isn't ditching and risking my way of life, but choosing which CEO to ram 🤬

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

That website isn't one to judge. I opened it up and there's huge ad overlay immediately lol.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

That's how I pay server costs :)

Feel free to use ad block, doesn't hurt my feelings one bit. AdBlock Plus is still good. I'm shocked to meet a programmer who doesn't already block ads TBH!

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