this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
1183 points (99.4% liked)

Not The Onion

15147 readers
1327 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old

They picked some good frogs to test this on

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This offends me to the core. Stellantis has made my shit list, and I will never purchase any product they are involved in. EVER !

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw this on Lenny about Jeeps. I asked someone sitting in a new Jeep if she got ads when she came to a stop and she said no. So now I wonder if there is something about the trim level or something. She said it was 1 year old. Maybe this just started.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

They could also just be A/B testing shit to see how much backlash they get.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago

I would drive back to the seller istantly.

Car is mine. No internet connection if I don't won't, no data exchamge with the producer, nothing.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

And so it begins.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›