At this pace, I’ll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
My 17 year old car is at almost 200k miles and I just dumped over $2k into it to keep it going to a quarter million miles to try and hold off having to buy something new.
Cheaper than a car payment… By a lot. I budget about 1500 a year and just act like thats my car payment.
Jeep owners are the perfect target for this. Not exactly the kind of people doing a lot of research before purchasing a vehicle. Or else they wouldn’t buy a jeep.
Guilty as charged, I owned a total of 5 jeep/Chrysler/Dodge vehicles way back when. Moved to Infiniti, then Tesla (fucking got rid of it within a year) and now I have a Chinese BYD with every telematic disabled.
Haha. Yeah man, you’re not hyper focused on total cost of ownership. They know their audience!
If you can move somewhere with public transit, it has changed my life
Public transit might be great, but it is certainly not ad-free.
Read a book and it might as well be.
Yeah that’s my reaction. Also public transportation changed my life for the year and a half I used it, by eating up zn extra hour a day of my life. My 15-minute each way car commute became 50 each way, very consistently. I finally got fed up with it and went back to driving.
At least those ads don’t track you and you can ignore them.
Unfortunately, public transportation in my country is garbage, and I’m being considerate with that word.
Are there still some e cars without bloatware and privacy issues??
I haven’t followed Kotaku for years. Did they give up on covering video games? Car manufacturing isn’t even adjacent.
Didn’t they get caught up in the hulk Hogan dick pic scandal?
always a “software glitch”
That’s the easy “justification” used 99% of the time. Every single company. Fuck them all.
I had literally just recommended that my brother in law check out jeeps for his next vehicle. I have just corrected that recommendation! No jeeps.
The heck is “instant opt-out”? As opposed to what? Not being able to close the ad unless you buy the product?
Start advocating for more walkable/bikable areas in your city, with more train and bus options, too.
I agree with the principle of it, but it’s also a slow and tedious process, one that the complainer won’t benefit from for years, if ever.
Not that you shouldn’t do it, but it’s not a solution to what happened here.
Hence “start advocating”.
Because if you don’t start, you go nowhere. And advocating is basically step 1.
I’m sticking with my Penny Farthing.
Hold onto it, farthings are already gone, so once they get rid of pennies you’ll have to “upgrade” to a Dime Nickel :P
a glitch where we had our ad team write the marketing material and setup a call center that would process these policies on the backend and training the backend call center staff to process these policies and built out backend systems to store and process said policies and a mechanism to push ads to the car. Besides all the a total glitch
Time to replace that stereo head, but it sucks that you’d be forced to due to POP UP ADS!
This zero-tolerance permanent unforgivability mentality is super common now. Why would you not consider buying a Jeep in say 20 years, when every person responsible for making or implementing some heinous decision that outrages you right now probably won’t even work there anymore?
