Thursday, February 27, 2025

In-car Ads Glitch May Be Preview of a Distracting Future

Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site -- complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep, they wrote, a promotion for an extended warranty plan popped up in the center console.

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Ads are annoying and occasionally insidious, and an ad that repeatedly appears inside your own car is even more so.

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-- Ars Technica (@arstechnica.com) February 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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... Ads are annoying and occasionally insidious; an ad that repeatedly appears inside one's own car more so. According to other online posts on Reddit and Jeep forums, the issue goes back several years, affecting several models of Jeeps.

Stellantis, which owns Jeep, says the repetitive nature of the promotion was a glitch. "This is an isolated incident affecting fewer than ten vehicles at this time limited to the US," Dan Reid, a spokesperson for the automaker, wrote in a statement. He acknowledged, though, that Stellantis shows other drivers in-vehicle promotions, too. Dodge owners, for example, get an infotainment push after 60 days of purchase offering the Dodge Complete Performance Package, a comprehensive warranty offering. Stellantis says that, on average, customers receive about two in-vehicle messages annually, containing safety, maintenance, or marketing information. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 07:45 PM

@#1 ... Stellantis, which owns Jeep, says the repetitive nature of the promotion was a glitch. ...

The only glitch I see in this is the apparent brain-dead ~thinking process~ (and I use that loosely, oh so loosely) that drivers want to be interrupted by distractions on the dashboard that might lead to more corporate profits.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 07:47 PM

Ads are annoying and occasionally insidious...

Yet they drive the American economy.
In a growth driven system, when your only revenue stream is ads, they only thing you can do to increase profits is to increase the amount of ads.

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-02-27 07:29 AM

Need to make sure there's no way any car I get in the future can do this.

Avoid ads, use the brave browser. Free advice to anyone sick and tired of ads on webpages. Ad block plus used to work pretty good but even that isn't cutting it anymore.

#4 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-27 06:42 PM

>buying a jeep nowadays
>reddit poster
It checks out

#5 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-02-27 06:52 PM

Avoid ads, use the brave browser. Free advice to anyone sick and tired of ads on webpages. Ad block plus used to work pretty good but even that isn't cutting it anymore.

linux firefox and ublock origin
yw

#6 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-02-27 07:35 PM

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