• AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
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    I just bought a Toyota and they locked a lot of features behind an app with a monthly fee, absolute fucking pricks. The whole auto industry is going to shit.

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      Seeing as cars and computers are increasingly shared platforms, where is the car-hacking community? As distinct from the car-optimizing or car-modding communities.

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    7 hours ago

    Stellantis? More like Stale Anus

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    I can deal with ad when watching TV or YouTube. But ads in the car, even while stopped, is just begging for someone to get killed. Will never even consider getting a jeep. I’m probably gonna have to get a new car in a couple of years and I want something new, but dumb. I want as little smart shit as possible, which is probably not going to be a thing.

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      I can deal with ad when watching TV or YouTube.

      i can’t! i really hate ads, they’re so loud and obnoxious, they’re like jump scares every time they come on! ugh! this car would be like my idea of a nightmare!

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        I use ad breaks in vids to answer texts/emails or take a piss or whatever. Intrusive ads that take up entire pages on a site are the worst tho. Those can fuck off.

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          do you mute them or something? i don’t think i could focus on reading anything with that shit blaring in the background!

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            I just tune ads out. I got ADHD, so it’s really easy for me to get distracted and completely tune things out. It’s useful in some situations, but mostly sucks lmao.

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    The best thing about Saint Luigi is that one doesn’t have to endorse an incel eco-fascist like Teddy K to call for “direct action.”

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    Careful with ol Ted there, all his good points were accidental, dude bombed university offices because he heard a plane fly over in the woods.

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    We need laws on how intrusive ads are allowed to be. Advertising is out of control. Personally, whenever I see an ad too many times, I make sure to avoid purchasing that item or anything from that company. You’re trying too hard to sell me junk.

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      “how intrusive” ?

      We need laws to ban any sort of tracking, profile generation, etc.

      Bring back contextual ads. If I’m on a gaming website show me a gaming ad ffs.

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          Cigarette advertising was banned in the US. It famously increased profit because they didn’t have to burn it all on advertising.

          Advertising is like nuclear weapons. It’s bad that it exists, harms people around it, and is only needed because the opposition has it. If it disappeared, everyone would benefit, but no one wants to be the first.

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          Shudders. Shutters are what people used to have in the US to get through the storms. People thought they were cool so a trend spread. Now almost every house has fake ones. Look on the sides of your windows from outside, ever wonder why that shit was screwed in beside the windows?

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        Ok, honest question: In a world where all advertising is banned, how do I know who makes something I want/need?

        Like, is a website you find in a search result an ad? Is putting something in your local Yellow Pages an ad?

        Maybe we need to qualify “No advertising” with something?

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          No. If you are actively searching for something, and go to a specific place that sells that thing. It is not advertising, the active party is you not them.

          The problem is when the active party is the ad-networks, the trackers, the junk pushers.

          If I go to a review site, for say lawn mowers, and they say hey brand 1 is great, but brand 2 is better because of ‘reasons’; I am active, engaging in the process. If however, I then go to a site that is about tigers, and brand 3 pushes their ad to intrude on the tiger info…this (in my opinion) is a major intrusion into my private space.

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            Would you ban television commercials? Sponsored products unrelated to a YouTube video’s content?

            I completely agree with you. So tired of pushed garbage ads. There’s just a gray area so the language of a hypothetical “law” would have to carefully considered.

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              Television ads are a grey area, they don’t tend to track you and follow you around in a creepy way.

              Sponsored content, is in my opinion very similar to TV ads, the sponsor is the same for all viewer of the vid in a similar way to TV.

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      True. Also we need to regulated the spaces that the ads can occupie. Or the possibility that “sky is a billboard” might happen becomes too high

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      Same here. Also if the add is : giving an horrible child candy / do they think i am stupid talking / ‘real’ examples

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    Turning everything you use into a fucking ads platform is peak capitalism. Burn it with fire.

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    It ain’t right.

    But i also don’t get why people are still buying Jeeps? Most cursory search while doing research for a new vehicle should bring up red flags quick.