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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For

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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 garbage feature was...

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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For

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Did you know John Deere tractors have a dedicated piracy scene? Because the tractors require authorized technicians to service them and doesn't allow farmers to service them themselves, spoofed firmware has appeared and is fairly frequently used to bypass this.
My point is, if you can jailbreak a tractor you can jailbreak a car. Just a matter of time.

Pretty much everyone asked for this with their actions and choices as consumers. Lucky us, we can still choose not to buy a Dodge Charger or a Swasticar.
- It’s def gonna spread tho. This is just one model one make. For now. In 2, 5, 10 years? CP77 without any of the fun shit.

If this happened to me and assuming I had physical knobs/buttons for AC, etc, and those wouldn’t be affected, I would take a hammer to it, mount an iPad Mini or something for GPS, and just listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks on my phone via a Bluetooth speaker.
I already have bad road rage (I’m not proud of this & am actively working on it) and this would send me over the edge.

They just did this with jeeps last month. Said it 2as an error
- Error my ass. "Market research" was the word they wanted.

Probably for bail bondsmen

Mmmm, delicious unbridled capitalism.

2026 will be the year of the Linux car
- Aptera, what I'm waiting for. They claim they will have all parts available online for easy repairs, and IMO it's just a really cool car concept.
- The linux dashboard
  
  car assistant

I never thought I would say this, but thank god there are a bunch of car hobbiest in my area.
If this type of invasive shit becomes mainstream, I at least know that the auto community around me will be able to fix anything that gets put into my travel device.

nobody deserves it more than dodge charger owners

They're just testing to see what people are willing to accept.
Every time you see a useful idiot saying "it's not that bad" or "they're a business and they need to make money", you know who to blame for why things are they way they are.

Tfw your car is trying to reach you about its own extended warranty

Stuck in traffic......introducing, the all new 2025 elantra! Hyundai has done it again! We all known it sounds like sentra but they keep making new elantras every year! Now just 54,978.73 with a 56% Apr amortized weekly!
Papa pa pa paaaa! I'm loving it!
New on the McDonalds menu!
Thanks for listening to 100.7! Your friends Krissy and tushy.
Avocados from Mexico!... Now just $4.50 extra on every taco!
Donate to Snt Vincent's cousin Alfredo Medo. Every year thousands go hungry without a proper apply wristwatch...
At Von's club we're family!
You've arrived! Welcome home! Don't forget the two dildoes on your Amazon cart! The pink one is Christina's favorite. Antonio loves the blue one because its gir....door slams!
Hatchback opens.....when you open up a new Coke check under the cap to win a trip to Eldorado! ...hatchback slams!
- I really fucking dislike that you used Hyundai when they are like the one company that still does cool fucking shit at prices normal people can afford.
- What's sad is a significant amount of people have simply been conditioned to accept that level of noise in their lives.
  If things are quieter and they aren't getting products shoved in their faces 24/7, they become visibly uncomfortable.
  
  The quiet means you have to deal with your own thoughts and theyre certainly not going to do that!

If someone develops an aftermarket fix to make the ads go away, now that might be a product/sertvice people will want to pay for. Look at Dodge - creating new job sectors!
- As long as the money never touches the hands of those who need it, the ruling class is satisfied.

I sometimes wonder if my current car will be my last new car. My car has some tracking that I can supposedly disable, so I understand the appeal of classic cars more. I might have to pick up a mint condition early 2000s car for my midlife crisis.
- I see an MX5 and track days in your future.

The worst asshat psycho drivers in my city tend to drive those things. Good schadenfreude comes from learning this news

Yet another car I’ll never buy.

Why? Well, probably because Dodge badly needs the money. The brand’s U.S. sales plummeted 29% in 2024
This'll help sales, I'm sure.
- Should we make better cars that don't have the interior of 2002? No. Better add ads!
  
  The american dream right here.
  It's why american cars suck. Nobody buys dodge overseas.
  You have to be stupid enough to buy something just to support your ruling class in order to buy american cars.
- Capitalism is an ouroborus
- Stellantis looking at all that blank ad space on your infotainment console: "It's free real estate!"

Any minute now one of those brave-browser idiots will be along to tell us all how great ads are because they can make us aware of products that we had not yet discovered or remind us of products we didn't know were near by.
- What does this have to do with brave-browser users?
  
  Brave derives revenue from advertising.
  Brave devotees are the only people I've ever seen defending advertising as a user friendly revenue model.
  
  I've noticed brave users are some of the biggest useful idiots on the internet.
  I genuinely think there are 2 classes of brave users: people who are invested in the company trying to viral market it, and the morons who fall for it.

This literally happened to Jeeps a month ago.
“It should also be noted that ads are part of your contractual agreement with SiriusXM, but we are working on the frequency,” replied a Jeep Cares representative. “Thank you for your patience.”
A Stellantis spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that “a temporary software glitch affected the ability to instantly opt out in a few isolated cases, though instant opt-out is the standard for all our in-vehicle messages. Our team had already identified and corrected the error, and we are following up directly with the customer to ensure the matter is fully resolved.”
Fool me once, Stellantis...
- Companies sure so have a lot of "glitches" and "technical difficulties" when they're introducing controversial features that forces it on a group of people, only to be nearly immediately removed with all kinds of excuses..... And then the feature is forced for everyone within a few months.
  Almost like it's NOT unintentional, they're NOT experiencing technical difficulties, and they're actually just testing the waters before diving in, with neatly 0 intent to pull back unless the consumers put upenoigh of a fuss the company execs get scared.

Hey so I'm getting this thing on my new Charger, I think it's a check engine light?
- I laughed pretty hard, thanks for that
- I think I know who’s responsible.

Here's the source so you can see it for yourself. https://redlib.private.coffee/r/Charger/comments/1gq9nyf/ads_on_the_center_screen_now_thats_wild/?
- what is redlib private coffee? i like that layout!
  
  redlib is, analogue to invidious, a proxy service for reddit. private.coffee is just the domain of the person whose proxy you are using.
  https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
- Oh, I would definitely hit that call button. Then proceed to ask a bunch of stupid questions and wast as much time as possible.
  
  Bold of you to assume dodge can't afford the 15¢ an hour they pay to some poor soul in bangledesh.
  
  "engagement numbers are up!"
  
  First question: What the hell is this?
  Second question: What the hell is wrong with you people?

Just make a list of advertisers who actually advertise in these, and actively avoid & shame them. It is fair that they try new things out, but the problem is, when the consumers accept them.

I chose the right decade to give up driving.
- I chose the right decade to get a car without any options whatsoever
  
  My 2007 just clicked over to 271K miles and I'm going to keep it running as long as possible. It has all normal bells and whistles of a limited version, but was built before all this madness began. It's a CAR.
  
  We were rocking an 08 Mazda without even power windows up until a few years ago. Even that is too much these days. I'm happier on buses and trains.

And so it begins.

They picked some good frogs to test this on

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