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.
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.
Stellantis looking at all that blank ad space on your infotainment console: “It’s free real estate!”
Should we make better cars that don’t have the interior of 2002? No. Better add ads!
Capitalism is an ouroborus
They’re solid vehicles. My 08 caliber died last year with nearly 300k miles. Their interiors are just so old looking. I had an 97 Contour that doesn’t look much different than their current interiors.
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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.
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 had no idea lol I use brave just to avoid ads which is why I’m confused.
Brave is involved in a crypto scam and is backed by conservative evil fuck Peter thiel
Thanks for the heads up.
I’d suggest you change to Firefox, but they have made some… troubling changes to their privacy policy recently, so it may be a good idea to use a debranded port of it instead.
Afaik that’s mostly FUD and was debunked.
I’m still not happy with Mozilla throwing money down the AI toilet.
I already mainly use Firefox, BUT I need a browser that supports client certificates (aka mutual TLS). The desktop version does, but not the mobile one.
Also, once in a while, I need to do something through a shitty website that simply doesn’t work in firefox but does in a webkit/blink.
I usually just blacklist those and never come back, but sometimes it’s something I can’t avoid like taxes or gov related bs.If y’all got a good suggestion, thanks
you have 48 hours to uninstall brave or you will be thoroughly cancelled.
on lemmy, using the browser you are currently using is tantamount to getting a maga tattoo
you may delay the cancellation by 24 hours by promoting your affinity for linux installs, or swearing that you will switch to a non USA produced kind of ketchup
also, no nicole for you until you reform from your evil ways
Downvoters don’t get the joke!
Brave is a series scam company.
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.
I use it on my mobile devices to avoid youtube ads. Because i’ve yet to find a better way to avoid them on a tablet or phone.
If you have a better option for iphone/ipad, i’m willing to try it.
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
OMG, Car AI…
You seem to be hungry, maybe hangry, you haven’t eaten in a while. Sheets is open and has fresh hot food! You know that coffee you got 2 hours ago should be wearing off, don’t you want to stop for a bathroom break? Their restrooms are cleaned hourly!
nabu el carro
4 updates since this morning
I drive an ‘03 Lexus SC430. No dealer locked bs, never has issues, documentation easily obtainable, new OEM parts still sold.
Basically a Linux car.
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.
Hell yes I do.
When that old antipiracy ad was like “you wouldn’t download a car,” turns out they were vastly overestimating your average American tractor owner or car driver’s respect for the corporate arcology.
Arcology: architectural ecology, a city intended to be contained in a single structure.
Thanks boss, I used the word and I’m like “I’m maybe 10% sure this is a word and most that confidence is coming from SimCity 2000” but then I went full send, I might not be the best journalist.
You know, I meant the corporate hierarchy. They’re increasingly living in Spacex company towns or other arcologies and such. The gated communities, whatever the corpo version of the Ivory Tower is. In a word, that one building from SimCity 2000.
Encrypted ECM? Build a new foss one and sell them online, you’ll make bank.
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.
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This what I don’t get, those huge “infotainment” screens are perfectly acceptable, but you can’t answer a phone.
Edit; missed the letter “a”.
You are typically allowed to have limited interaction with a mounted phone.
You can’t pick your phone up or anything like that, but you are allowed some very limited usage if it’s mounted. It’s no different than a built in car dash at that point.
However, fuck this, this is beyond expected use, and is definitely going to cause distracted driving.
You’re usually not supposed to interact with the screen either when driving, and it’s easier to put your hand back on the wheel when the screen is mounded instead of dropping your phone… but I get what you mean.
If you do you must buy something
As long as your purchase is over $10,000, you have immunity from prosecution for vehicular manslaughter during the transaction.
This law brought to you by Carls Jr.
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Stop buying new cars until they remove this bullshit. We can go 40 years with existing cars without buying a single new one.
I have a Renault master from 2016. I’m pretty sure I can squeeze another 50 years out of this diesel bitch with adequate maintenance and care. Plus my other car is an e-bike.
That’s awesome ! My dad had a Renault back in the 70s air cooled…which is super weird for living in middle of nowhere. He overheated it eventually haha
The cost of used cars isn’t much better assuming you don’t want a piece of crap. After almost being killed by 2 used cars I’d prefer to not risk it anymore.
I was very lucky in that I can repair most cars. It’s a lot harder now. Before I had a real job, all my vehicles cost less than 3k. If you learn what to look for and to stay safe (brakes, tires) you shouldn’t really be in danger with a used car. Now in an accident, some ass in a 30 foot tall dodge truck will kill you, but that’s kind of unavoidable even if you’re on the sidewalk
Subaru has great safety ratings and the “used Subaru tax” (as in, a used Subaru tends to be more expensive) is because they are very good cars. They have some of the best safety ratings on the market.
Skill issue. Used cars are dangerous if maintenance is neglected.
Starting price is now $58,000.
They ditched selling the accessible models for the luxury market and they do the most cheap and trashy thing possible.
It’s incredible how stupid millionaire CEOs can be.
It does appear… pretty bootleg.
Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!
What? That’s about double the price of a Camry which is probably a better car all around
It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.
Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.
I’ll accept this when the car comes for free.
I know right? I would totally get an ad supported free car. Who knows, someone might make an ad block for it.
They’d be showing ads on the windshield and windows for that
An ad that appears at the top of the steering wheel, that always stays at the top since they embedded a circular screen into the wheel so the ads can always be shown.
We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.
Did we?
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.
Unless everybody now says “I’ll never buy anything from dodge”. If it doesn’t impact sales it really will become the new norm.
You’d really need to boycott anything made by the Stellantis group, which includes
- Abarth
- Alfa Romeo
- Chrysler
- Citroen
- Dodge
- DS
- Fiat
- Jeep
- Lancia
- Maserati
- Opel
- Peugot
- RAM Trucks
- Vauxhall
Because the exact same thing was reported by Jeep drivers a few weeks ago. Maybe the behavior stays contained to just the American brands under the Stellantis umbrella, but better to be safe than sorry.
That’s exactly the attitude that makes shit like this possible.
As an unfortunate owner of a Chrysler and having owned and driven a ton of other cars I can confidently say Stellantis makes the shittiest cars you can buy in US. On screen ads are just a small piece of an immense garbage island that is this shitty company.
I forget where I heard or read it, but there was an anecdote about a guy that worked for Toyota engineering in a department that would purchase competitor vehicles to disassemble them and see what they were up to, like what kind of innovations they were adding. They didn’t bother with chryslers because the most they’d gain was new ways to design a car to be difficult to maintain or repair.
My friend had an early 00s intrepid and would always bring up needing to remove the passenger tire and wheel well to replace the battery any time car maintenance was brought up.
My wife’s first car was a Dodge Stratus. It was the worse. It had a battery leech and I couldn’t find what was leeching power. She was stuck on the side of the road and I bought a battery to try and save her and didn’t realize I was also needed to remove the front passenger tire.
Why on EARTH would you need to remove a TIRE to replace a BATTERY…!?
What made things even harder was that the plastic wheel well used steel wood screws, which is exposed to salt. So the screws were completely rusted out. I ended up having to breaking the screws and zip tying the plastic wheel wells in place.
Never ever again.
I fucking hated that car.
Because you shouldn’t trust dodge Chrysler to plan a birthday party, let alone a damn car.
I want to really know how often this works. Has there ever been a single instance where someone says…“let me read this popular. Oh my! I really should get am extended warranty. Let me just click accept.”
And even if they do accept it, what then? Does Dodge expect the person to continue reading the terms of service and enter their credit card info…in their car?
I will not buy or watch anything with ads. I can’t stand ads. Ads represent everything wrong with the US and capitalism. Just not stop shit shoveled into our faces.
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That seems like a lot of hassle if you’re then going to buy a new car anyway.
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He was making fun of a light grammatical error in your post.
You said ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine then buy a new car’
What you meant was ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine than buy a new car.’
“Then” means that you will be doing something subsequently. “Than” means that you will be doing something instead of something else. Normally this is a grammatical nitpick, but it actually changes the meaning of your sentence by using the wrong word.
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Good that you have an older Civic. The newer ones are lemons - Honda cheaped out on the air condenser from 2017-2021, so no AC! The electrical shit in the dash is all kinds of fucked up too.
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Like, I feel so fucked over. I wanted a Civic because they’re usually reliable, and I got a shitbox that gets so hot during the summer that my phone shuts off.
Really sucked, because Doordash/Uber for cash would be really helpful.
I drove 80’s and pre 92’ VW’s up until 2019 and now I’m exclusively driving pre 04 VW’s . They are futuristic to me , heated sats , heat , AC its crazy .
I’ve amassed enough maintenance parts and transmissions to keep me going indefinitely…or until some jackass makes them illegal then I guess I’ll just ride a bike
