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

submitted 10 hours ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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 absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.

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[–] doc@fedia.io 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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/?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Oh, I would definitely hit that call button. Then proceed to ask a bunch of stupid questions and wast as much time as possible.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

First question: What the hell is this?

Second question: What the hell is wrong with you people?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world -4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. Just cuss them out, scream and abuse them every pop-up. If everyone did it the ads would stop in a week.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

WTF? No! The call center people didn't do this. What the hell is wrong with you?

You call and ask them that you have a question, and that it's to ask their marketing team "what the hell?"

Treat call center folks are your allies, and they can easily become that for you. Abuse is literally the only wrong answer.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What the fuck, no, absolutely do not abuse the people working in call centers. What the fuck. They have ZERO agency over where some ad ends up nor who buys their capacity.

[–] Baaahb@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean... You can waste their time without.being awful. Someone has to pay those people, and Dodge won't want too. Teach dodge its to expensive.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nope. They are paid by the hour though, so the longer you can keep them on the phone, the more it costs Stellantis.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nope what?

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Bold of you to assume dodge can't afford the 15¢ an hour they pay to some poor soul in bangledesh.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

"engagement numbers are up!"

[–] Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

what is redlib private coffee? i like that layout!

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

what runs the redlib? is that like cloudflare running a library and using their servers like for a handful of application, or is it a function of private coffee or is this some running on something else.

Private coffee looks like its own service and I guess one of those is hosting redlib, however it has a bunch of other items on it, is private coffee some form of extension of the lemmy or fediverse or whatever this all is i am trying to wrap my head around since switch from reddit.

Sorry, like i am having a hard time with it, similar to when blockchain first got introduced, i didnt quite get it for some time

[–] doc@fedia.io 2 points 3 hours ago

Yep, thanks. I use the redlib Firefox extension that redirects reddit urls to a random redlib instance.