Another car maker banned from my life forever
Another car maker banned from my life forever
The car company says that the ads were the result of a software glitch
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
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.
Yeah, but I don't own the bus
At least you didn't spend $40k for the privilege
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.
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
Based. Train, busses and bikes are superior.
Adds a whole new angle for arguing in favor of the /fuckcars movement.
Time to replace that stereo head, but it sucks that you’d be forced to due to POP UP ADS!
Jeep/Chrysler have always been banned from my life.
Garbage. Worse than any other American car company. They even managed to screw up cars made for them by Mitsubishi.
Can confirm. Had to buy a Pacifica because I needed a wheelchair accessible minivan and only Pacifica offered the features I wanted. Absolute piece of shit of a car. I don't think I ever regretted any purchase as much. I would 100% compromise on the features I wanted had I known how much this car sucks. I'm talking about a brand new 2024, very well equipped car. Do not buy a Chrysler. I can shit on this car for days AMA.
I had a 1996 grand cheerokee... great vehicle except for everything chrysler hands touched. (It was a near finished design from AMC).
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
[email protected] is an option.
But yeah, with all the telemetry they've tacked onto vehicles, feels like you need a digital and electrical forensics team to disable it all
I haven't followed Kotaku for years. Did they give up on covering video games? Car manufacturing isn't even adjacent.
Are there still some e cars without bloatware and privacy issues??
Not really, they've all had telemetry for probably 20 years.
The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn't saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)
My 2016 doesnt have a modem. It has a Sirus radio...but sirus operates one way and has no way to communicate back.
Here's an article from last year. It's Australian, but I think it likely that car brands have the same or similar privacy policies wherever you go.
In short: Tesla and Korean brands are the worst. Japanese brands apart from Mazda are the best for privacy.
There’s also the Mozilla.org Privacy Not Included report
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
They have Renault as the least creepy and Nissan as the most!
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
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.