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Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

tech.slashdot.org Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop - Slashdot

"In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report: In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stell...

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Absolutely fucking not.
Though it does sound like a good kicker for the after market systems to make a comeback.
- Not a chance. The new ‘infotainment’ clusters integrate necessary features like climate control to prevent aftermarket replacements in most vehicles. I honestly don’t know if any manufacturers even use the single and double DIN standards anymore.
  
  Mazda is supposedly one of the last major automakers that has mostly physical controls in their cars. Definitely at the top of my list for any future car purchases.
  
  Despite no longer sticking to the DIN standard, and climate controls being integrated into the infotainment system, there still exists a big market for aftermarket infotaiment systems, they just have to be engineered for the specific make of car you have. But they can be bought for most cars that have infotaiment systems that are now outdated
  
  The Chinese won't be stopped by that. CANBUS integration controlled by a poorly designed app coming to your (2-3 versions old) Android head unit!
- Custom flashes are probably more likely given the system integration of the head unit. UBlock for your car. How crazy is that?

Jeep is a Stellantis product. Literally the worst quality auto manufacturer in North America. They are circling the drain and jacking up the prices on their vehicles and making Pikachu faces when they don't sell. Their only customers are people who don't know how to research their purchases, and putting advertisement hell into their cars is another example of that. I suspect they will not be in business a decade from now.
- I work in the auto industry. Can confirm, Stellantis is in bad shape. I wouldn't buy anything from them.
  
  What's confusing is that some great auto brands from Europe are under Stellantis (Peugeot and Citroen at least)
  And they're actually not doing a shitty job in designing or selling their vehicles. It's mainly the Chrysler brands or basically the US brands under Stellantis. I seriously hope the shit happening in Chrysler doesn't come trickling down to the other brands
  
  Out of curiosity, who would you buy from?
- Jeep Renegade is a rebadged Fiat 500L.
- It'll be less than a decade
- I had two Jeeps, first was originally my dad's. It was an old shitbox. The other one was a somewhat old shitbox. 1998 & 2010. We dumped more time and money into them than I'd care to admit.

"Speed", but instead of a vehicle exploding, it's to avoid ads.
- Officer: Why were you speeding?
  Me: Wanted to avoid ads.
  
  This isn't even funny... This is something people will do. Jeep doesn't give a fuck about safety. FUCK Jeep.
- Officer, "Why'd you run that red light?"
  Me, "If I hear the Meow Mix jingle one more time I'm gonna snap!"
  Jeep, having heard you mention a product, dutifully plays the relevant ad.
  
  Please drink a verification can.

I thought this was a funny onion type of article... It isnt. Wtf
- Our whole existence has turned into an Onion article.
  
  It really has. And it's getting worse every day. I wish that was hyperbole.

I thought this was the onion for a moment
- Furthermore: Slashdot still exists? And it still has an active community in the comments!?
  Lemmy alone hasn't been enough to replace reddit for me; I should see if I still remember my old password...
  
  Slashdot still has a good feed of articles. I never quit it 🤣
  
  Fark is still around too.
  
  The site is still there, but the comment sections are no longer fun nor do you find intelligent feedback as frequently as you could in the early days. Last time I was poking around there, the mods were upvoting climate denial comments. So much for science. (source: low uid)

This is all I need to never even look at a Jeep... how pathetic can these idiots get?
- This, exactly this. The fact that they would even consider this rules them out for me forever.
- I already had dozens of reasons to never buy a Jeep. This is just the cherry on a shitty cake.
  
  Yep, I swore off any and all Chrysler products over a decade ago.
- Also a great way for me to never consider looking at a Ram, Chrysler, Dodge, or whatever the fuck else this corporation makes.
- It's actually part of the Sirius XM package. So I think that all you have to do is not bother with Sirius XM.
  
  Too bad it comes with the jeep.....

This is why you need government. This is why you need regulations.
Corporations are evil pieces of shit that would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.
They'd grind you and your entire family into a powder if it made them a few bucks.
Fuck Jeep and their shitty tin cars.
- This is why we need government that isn't in the pocket of corporations.
  We need something like lawmakers having to disclose their tax information annually. If you want to be in office and make millions you should be willing to put your morals on the review table.
- they would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.
  No, they would require you purchase these because their business can’t sell their products without them, but they’d make you pay a subscription for them to keep working, and when you stop paying the subscription, the car stops turning on until you pay your monthly airbag and seatbelt fee.

Hey, you might want to team up with Sony...
- DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!
  
  Roll verification coal to continue
  FTFY
- Is this real?? Do you have the source?
  
  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds
  
  Here you go
  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
  Edit: I didn't see the other comment, oops
- Wasnt there also something about showing ads while your show is paused now too?
  I'm ready to go back to kodi.
  
  Happens on Prime now
  
  Depending on how long you were gone, don't get real debrid btw.

Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram,
Not just a Jeep thing. at least not for long.
- Holy cow. They've done the impossible - they've found a way to make a Dodge into a shittier vehicle. I am awestruck.
- All the brands of vehicle that have some of the worst historical reliability!

Old cars are gonna be so expensive.
- I wonder how hard it would be to make an open source car brain that can be a drop-in replacement for the commercial ones?
  
  Hard, even stuff from 10 years ago have proaitary hardware across multiple "brains".

I was looking for a car a few months ago and was looking at newer models, used, but mostly less than a decade old. Then I started reading about all the tracking and such.
I gave in to my inner teenager and bought a 2001 Porsche 911.
The entertainment center can connect via Bluetooth but there's no Android Auto, no navigation. It has Sirius XM but I never had a subscription to it and never will.
I might add a backup camera but that's it. My phone is more than enough tracking, even with as much of it shut off as possible.
- This is the way.
  Add in a magnetic charger phone mount and you're golden in my opinion.
  
  A previous owner mounted one where the cigarette lighter was. I'm going to replace it soon since it doesn't really fit - I can't charge my phone in the holder.
  Maybe I'll finally learn FreeCAD and print my own.
- Damn, sweet ride dude! Congrats!
  
  Thanks! The next car on the list was a 2004 Honda Civic Si hatchback manual.
  I honestly would have been happy with either car. Having so much fun with the Porsche though.
- This is the way.
  
  Yeah. Sometimes my bank account gets sad but I don't.

The ad they show is an ad for their own extended warranty package and it says that "Odometer must be less than 36000 miles to purchase" Anyone wanna take bets for whether or not that will actually shut up once you go over 36k miles? (I'm betting no)
We're really deep into nightmare territory with the kind of stuff companies feel its ok to do to customers..
- If the jeep even makes it to 36k.
- We need legislation against the unending encroachment upon our daily lives by advertisers.
  
  Best of fucking luck, hon. You're on the Fury Road now. What you need is a U-turn.
  
  And actual privacy protection.
  
  Yeah, like that's gonna do anything...
- There'll be a special maintenance package that will be available. Then it'll be ads for new Stellantis vehicles.
  
  "Check Engine light on again? Check out the new 2027 Jeep Wagoneer! You'll definitely get more miles out of the new one compared to the 2025 model thats now broken"
- I read a post somewhere where someone started getting this after they went over 36000 miles

I completely crossed off all GM cars due to lack of CarPlay. I am boycotting Tesla. I don’t trust BMW because they tried to make heated seats a subscription. Now Jeep and Stellantis?
- Japanese manufacturers are not perfect but seem to be the least interested in doing this kind of anti-consumer nonsense, at least for now. I have been happy with every Mazda I've owned in the last decade (3 in total) for what it's worth.
  
  Yup, Toyota has been solid for me. Though admittedly, they’re also one of the worst in regards to data privacy; You should assume that every single thing you do in a Toyota is being recorded and sent back to a Toyota server for ad/tracking purposes.
  
  I just wish Mazda had a good EV. Their EVs just aren't that good at the moment. I leased a BMW iX a few months ago, but my old car (which I still have) is a 2012 Mazda 3. Love the EV experience and I don't think I'll buy a gas powered car ever again.
- I’m on year 9 of my 10 year car plan. Current vehicle is supposed to become the kidmobile and I planned on a new one.
  I won’t buy a new car though. If I do replace mine, it will be a used, unconnected car. I am so tired of iPads on wheels.
  
  my 2008 BMW is the last without a computer screen and none of that stupid knob and I had to seek it out but it was absolutely worth it. Bonus that I can actually work on the car my self!
- Toyotas are still good
  
  Toyota Sales here Boy do I have some BMW Heated seat subscription crap to sell you
  (Its not quite as bad as BMW. But one thing that really irks customers is the remote starter is restricted to a subscription service. unless you're one of the lucky ones who got a vehicle that installed the wrong part/fuses. in which case you can still remote start your car with the fob. its still very finnicky)
  
  I am still awaiting my first map update to my nav system that has free lifetime map updates, my truck will be 10 this year.
- Mercedes also includes a number of items as a subscription in some countries. Some stuff is app related. Others are things like getting full use of your rear-steering wheels and unlocking extra horsepower.
- To be honest, I would just get an old car and fit a tablet into it
- This only applies to GM EVs. Friend has a 2025 ICE Chevy which has both AA and CarPlay. Still dumb that the EVs don't have it though.
- Something to consider...
  Elon may be going down a conservative rabbit hole these days, but this is the sort of thing Tesla would never ever ever do. And things like using the telematic system to sell your location and speed to insurance companies. Never happened on a Tesla. You may not like the guy, but the cars are fucking solid.
  
  Tesla's have their own privacy issues, and build quality issues . Tesla's staff have been caught spying on their customers and sharing sensitive images of people .
  
  Oh, he's just going down a rabbit hole! He's going on a cute little adventure where he does a fucking Nazi salute in front of the whole country, then proceeds to recklessly dismantle huge parts of the US government, but it's all just part of his magical little journey! Teehee!
  
  Doesn’t Tesla lock larger battery capacity begging a paywall?
  
  Rainbow road mode is a bitch
  
  the cars are fucking solid.
  Try driving through a car wash without activating "car wash mode". 😂
  
  Tesla? You mean the Ford Pinto of EVs?? https://www.rawstory.com/cybertruck-2671127676/

Drivers don't need to be watching the road, they need to be watching this ad.

Holy shit. For the love of Luigi, this is terrorism.
- It's only terrorism when poor people do it.

This is just one of the many reasons I have no interest in new cars. If it needs an internet connection then I'm not buying it. There are very few things I need my vehicle to be able to do and having access to internet isn't one of them. I don't even like that my truck has automatic wipers - I vastly prefer the traditional ones. Hell, I don't even need the radio.
- Honestly, fuck the whole thing, I'll take my bike. With blackjack. And hookers.
  
  Honestly, fuck the the bike, it will save you from purchasing a hooker

A friend of mine bought a Jeep last year and it looked cool so we were thinking if this would be something for us as a next car.
But sadly I'm allergic to advertisement, so I guess a Jeep is out of question until they rethink it.
- There are plenty of better vehicles that aren't outrageously expensive just because they can be.
- You don't need to be allergic to advertisement to want avoid shit like this. The fucking audacity of companies these days. There is no place they won't try to shove these damn things to the detriment of every product, service, and personal moment. If they could put screens under your eyelids you'd have to watch drug ads one blink at a time and your dreams would be sponsored by AT&T.
  
  Yeah there's a huge difference between advertisements in free media vs advertisements in a car you almost certainly had to get a loan to purchase
- I don't recommend anyone buy a Jeep, not because of the ads but because they're built like shit. Quality has been in free fall for decades while prices have skyrocketed. Death wobble issues (Wranglers), motor reliability out the window, rust, more rust, just not worth it.
  I owned a 94 Cherokee and I loved it, and even though that 4.0L straight 6 had problems at least it would still run with bad piston rings, mysterious battery drain and holes in my radiator. The new ones just can't compete.
- I'ma turn into chief clappahoe if some bullshit like that shows up in my horse & carriage
- They have parts that you have to replace right away so you don't get stuck too. There are definite drawbacks.
- Buy used!

No fucking way. Not even if the car was free.
- Now hold on there, I'd let them do the ads and the vehicle tracking bs if the car was nice and it was free.
  If I'm buying the car, there's no fucking way.
  
  If it's a Jeep the screen and audio might break on their own anyway

I've known several Jeep owners over the last decade and those that weren't buying it strictly for the 'Jeep clout' as an actual vehicle/daily driver had constant issues, while under warranty, and dealt with issues even trying to get said warranty work done. Like that wasn't enough for me, on top of that I had a mechanic with his own shop that said he'd never touch another Jeep because of how horribly they are designed to work on. Anything from ease of access to work on the engine to bolts stripping out because they were overtorqued during assembly and made with shit metals that would sooner melt than come off in one piece. Now this? Yeah, hope they go bankrupt. This is just as bad as BMW and their 'pay a subscription for seat warmers' bullshit.
- dodge in general did not do well on realiability, Thing is they have neat engineering. So I loved the grand caravan but they killed it to try and get folks to pay toyota prices for their shit and its like no. You vehicles have to be ten grand cheaper so that you amoratize the repair bills.
  
  The dodge caravan was my teenage car. I loved it. Big. Ugly. No one wanted to drive with me and that was perfect because they also would have tried smoking in the car and I'd have broken out in hives. I miss you, dodge caravan.
- You know, I've got to give their marketing team props for managing to sell a vehicle with the engineering quality of a Saturn to people with more money than sense for a whole ass order of magnitude more than it's worth. Game recognizes game.
  
  Its not marketing it's that they extend credit to anyone who comes through the door. 550 credit score? No problem sir, here is your $62500 RAM 1500, loaded with options. If you can't pay $1000/month for a Kia why not splurge and not pay $2000/month for an optioned out truck?
- Yeah I've never heard anything good about jeeps in general. Now they are being run further into the ground by trying to become a luxury brand. At least when it was just a shitty jeep, it was still a somewhat cheap shitty jeep.
  
  When I was young, you (supposedly) could still buy WWII-era original Jeeps disassembled and packed into crates in cosmoline. I always wanted one of those but never had any desire to own a modern one.

How to get me to not buy a Jeep and to hate anyone pushing these ads (Mopar) in one simple act.

Note to self: Don't buy a Jeep.
- I dunno man. Harrison Ford made it sound like it was more rewarding than raising children and more important than world peace. You gonna turn your back on what seems to be something more fulfilling to Harrison Ford than religion just because it's an inferior product and it's pushing ads in your face like a free playstore game?
- Note to self: Don’t buy a Jeep.
  And if the only way you remember that is by a strong hook and bass line, I've got you covered.

"You almost ran over a five year old with your oversized vehicle, thanks for breaking! This segment is brought to you thanks to BetterHelp..."
- or better yet "You just ran over a single mother while missing her child! this segment brought to you by BetterHelp, you're gonna need it!"

Disgusting. Why would anyone pay for that?
- Just you wait until the windshields become screens as well. Full windshield ads baybe!
  
  In USSR, despite all its downsides, there was a huge upside - magazines like "Техника - молодежи" and various educational brochures of the practical kind, aimed at explaining how to really make something.
  And also a certain culture of hobbies associated with that, I guess all the energy from boredom went there.
  So - I've read about competitions of hobby-crafted cars then. Like 20 guys would make some (like half of it would be something used in usual Soviet cars, think Reagan and the 10 years joke) parts of a car in their garages and apartments (and even at work, if they worked on some factory, for example ; in general workplace in USSR was, eh, a bit more permanent of an association, so the border between personal life and work, including tools, was fuzzy), then assemble them.
  I think that could even be registered as a legal means of transportation. At least from what I've heard there is (or was) a surprisingly liberal part of Russian laws, allowing you to register almost anything as a car and get a number, with some criteria passed. Maybe these two things are related.
- Easy, they call their cars something like renegade or maveric and some idiots pay 80k for that shitbox
  
  I wanted a Jeep at some point. One of the nicer-looking models. A sand-yellow one, almost as good as a black g-wagon.
  But yes, times change. I wanted one from the early 90s, maybe.
  Sic transit gloria mundi.

Cyberpunk 2077 here we come. except its just the Corpo shit.
- Even 2077 didn't have ads in your car.
  
  No, but V's apartment did have advertisements on the windows and a vending machine in the living room

Now people will even more inclined to not stop when needed...

The car screen is a nice flat surface to attach the suction cup of your phone mount.

Imagine pulling up to a red light, checking your GPS for directions, and suddenly, the entire screen is hijacked by an ad. That’s the reality for some Stellantis owners. Instead of seamless functionality, drivers are now forced to manually close out of ads just to access basic vehicle functions.
Oh HELLLLL no. I hope my 2012 Subaru will last until I'm either dead or too old to drive. I don't even want to have these damn screens for the usual shit you have to do on them. I want to be able to do everything with physical controls, no eavesdropping, and no dependence on a fucking app or touchscreen to operate anything in my car! I will drive my car while wearing mittens! shakes fist
- Classic cars my man.
  
  Aw yeah, 14mpg, two distinct oil leaks, and cabins full of mold because the vintage weather strips failed forty years ago. (I drive a late 90s pickup and am acutely aware of the tradeoffs that come with older cars, even ones that are maintained relatively well.)

There's exactly zero chance I'd buy a car that showed me ads.
There was already zero chance I'd buy a Stellantis vehicle anyway after buying a brand new 1999 Dodge Durango that started rusting out sitting on our garage.
And while they did the bare minimum to remove the rust, but they didnt stand behind it. There was no way we were keeping it or buying anything else from them.
- Dodge was owned by DaimlerChrysler in 99. I only know that because my family was in the car business and weren't happy about that merger
  
  Yep, all connected /same garbage IMHO I was a big DSM (Diamond Star Motors) fan back in the mid/late 90's had a couple AWD Talons.
  
  Meanwhile I used to drive a 99 Chrysler 300m and I swear it was one of the best vehicles I've driven. It only died because as an idiot 19 year old I thought the engine temperature gage could wait a day because I had to move into college.
  That said it was the last car Chrysler made worth shit

CAT is on it. https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Stellantis_In_Car_Advertisements
- Oh this is the first time I've seen this wiki in the wild, neat!

So is this considered distracted driving?
- No, it's considered distracted stopping. /s
  Same damn diffence in my book, fuck Jeep for that shit!

There are no high end middle class cars now. Used be if you got an audi, merc, beamer etc. You were part of an in group where youngot extras. Now you spend 80K and they want you to subscribe for cruise control and AC. Lambourghini and porsche dropped back to entrr the market and only brought their badge.

Something something stallmanwasright.

Video showing ads on dashboard.
Video itself starts with a QR code ad embedded into it. And it's on Youtube so who knows how many ads I skipped with uBlock...
Adception.

There will soon come a time when I am only able to shop for a new car at a junkyard.
- Get a horse, gonna be cheaper it seems. And you don't have to pay for heated seats haha
  
  Have you seen the prices for oats these days!?

So does this mean I can stop hearing about stupid "Jeep Culture" bullshit now?
- People can like jeeps bro calm down
  
  Cool. What does that have to do with the whole "Jeep Culture" thing?

This is why used cars are so dang expensive, it seems like automobile quality has been in a free fall since 2008. The end user experience gets worse while the price goes up.
- Early 2000s jap cars are unkillable, surplus of parts, and are not tracker spyware nests. Great little things for sure. My 90s turboed volvo is a far more temperamental beast, but I cherish her quirks :)
  
  Right now my car is an 84. With a back up 86 truck. I used to have a 2011 subaru, but hit an prairie antelope with it. If I had my pick I think 1990-2008 Japanese cars are the sweet spot.
- Enshitification.
- Love my 2013 Honda. Haven’t driven anything newer
  
  That's newer then I would go but yeah at least Honda seems to be behind on the complete shit curve.

They really do take 80s and 90s dystopian movies as inspiration. Almost funny how ridiculous unimaginatively evil that are.

Anyone know any brand that doesn't pull this kind of shit in their cars?
- A bicyce at this point.
  
  And the best part is you probably have local anarchists who want to help you learn to maintain it
- Anything made before ~2015. You have a lot of great cars to choose from.
- 1999 Honda Civic.
  
  Sorry honey, I had to crash the Honda.
- I bought a 2025 Kia Sportage before the new Trumpflation taxes went into effect. No ads at all. I would have been pretty damn mad to see ads. Weird that Jeep has decided to self destruct.
  
  Self-destructing is their key feature.
  Lemon car

I wonder if disconnecting the car’s cell antenna would prevent this crap from loading.
Does this car have Android Auto/Carplay? Hopefully while that is active you can’t see the ad either.
- They generally go into limp mode if they cannot report on you.
  
  I mean it's a Jeep. You don't buy that if you don't want a limp car, anyways. :P
- Could be like some of those TVs that have baked-in ads. So if you don't have a data connection, they'll just play the default ones.
  Edit: I imagine that the car to prevent you from unplugging the antenna would probably do the classic, "I haven't had a data connection in X amount of time, therefore I cannot verify the security of the device, so we're going to prevent the use of autoplay."
  
  Or there's an LTE chip soldered in there somewhere...

This looks like a Luigi level threat

Maybe we just throw an ad on the windshield... Like a little one... Off to the side?

Lol! Imagine in 5pm traffic!..
Broom! Broom!
Stop!
Hey! You driving! The university of Phoenix has a degree just for you!
Go!
Stop!
And wells Fargo can help! Our loans are only 8% Apr!
Go!
Stop!
Pah pah pah pah....I'm loving it! At McDonalds we brought back the stegosaur burger! PST! Its actually crock!
Go!..

Sounds like the Jeep corporate execs should be charged with all the crimes that result from road rage incidents involving people who own Jeep products.

Fuck this shit. I don't even want to ever buy a newer car these days. Too much invasive bullshit.
- fuck me because my cars like 10 years old.

Stop 👏 Buying 👏 New 👏 Shit 👏
I could run a whole community on how to recycle, reuse, repurpose. Why the hell are people buying new cars?!
- Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on
- Make that community. I'll join up.
- Because I've seen what people do with their vehicles. I bought my car new 13 years ago and I've been able to make sure it's been properly maintained the entire time and no one else's crud is all over the interior. I intend to keep it until it falls apart. Prior to that I had a truck I bought used and got maybe 5 years out of it before the transmission died with only medium mileage. I had maintained it but who knows what the person before me did with it.
  That said if nothing changes with all this touchscreen infotainment shit I don't know what I'll do. I've hated every new vehicle I've been in the last few years.

Please do. But keep in mind, when I invariably get jump-scared by your infotainment system and crack my head on the car ceiling, I'm going to turn your revenue stream into my personal early retirement pension.
- Oh don't be silly. It was YOU who got distracted! The laws are for thee, not me!
  -The corporation, probably

lmao wtf

I'm curious what the customer agreement is for this? Is it in relatively plain sight or is this buried deep in the purchase agreement

Make the jeep 50% cheaper and I’d deal the ads. Otherwise …
- They'll make it cheaper for awhile to justify it to the public and government and then slowly raise the price so that you're paying full price AND watching ads.
  
  So Netflix….

This webpage is broken. It doesn't have content until you allow thrid-party scripts.
- Sorry I don't check if a webpage requires 3rd party scripts before I post them for you. Leave it blocked and moved on I guess?

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