• fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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    Turning everything you use into a fucking ads platform is peak capitalism. Burn it with fire.

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      everything you use own

      Consumer already paid for the damn vehicle. At least market that ad-bullshit as the cheaper freemium rental version and offer a no ads purchase version… They are not at all thinking about the consumer, only about filling their ever growing pockets.

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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.

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    Somewhat related to how bad it is at that company right now:

    Yesterday my brother and I drove by a brand new Jeep Wrangler (had a new car plate) that looked like a 24 or 25 that was burnt to the ground from the engine (my guess as the burning was much worse there than the cabin.) Emergency services were there still putting water on the engine bay but the ambulances were already gone. Hopefully everyone is okay.

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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.

        • 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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          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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            Cigarettes don’t need advertising though to stay on your mind, nicotine does a pretty good job of that. I agree with you for things people need, or are addicted to, but there are a lot of things that need advertising to keep there growth.

            Like car insurance is a necessity and a fixed market, you aren’t going to buy more insurance or buy it more frequently, so their advertising is mostly to maintain their current market position. If the insurance companies all stopped advertising, their profits would probably go up. But cars you can get people to buy more expensive cars more often and expand the market if you advertise to the people enough and convince them to upgrade. If all the car companies stopped advertising, then people wouldn’t see the need to upgrade unless their car is broken, so there would be fewer car sales, and the market would shrink.

            The enemy of this infinite growth scheme called capitalism is satisfaction. If you don’t have a product like cigarettes that generate dissatisfaction from their absence, then you need to create that dissatisfaction with advertising.

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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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                They didn’t track before the introduction of cable boxes with phone-home capabilities, at any rate.

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          Ok, dishonest question 😜: In a world where all prostitution is banned, how do I know who will fuck me?

          Like, is a website you find in a search result prostitution? Is putting something in the personals section an ad?

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

          /s

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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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      yep, the good thing about capitalism is we can now watch the capital pivot away from jeep 😃

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      I’d take it back and demand a full refund. This is a dangerous, irresponsible product that does not fulfil the purpose it was marketed for.

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        How do you prove any of those points for a return? Presumably they don’t show anything while in motion and it does drive so how does it not fulfill its purpose?

        Instead, you can return it in 6 months when the engine is blown because it’s a piece of Stellantis garbage.

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          Safety isn’t a thing that only happens when in motion. Checking your surroundings when stopped so you know when to go is important.

          But he’ll, I think video billboards should be banned too.

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          Merely driving from a to b is not the only purpose. They’ve sold it as being able to safely navigate, control your media, etc. If they were upfront and said “you cannot safely update your navigation or play/pause media while at lights, because we show ads”, they’d be in the clear. But by the accounts I’ve heard, it seems they didn’t tell people ahead of time what they were buying.

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        It really makes me sad, jeeps used to be awesome till Chrysler started getting bought out, around 2000. It was like when the AMC 4.0 and the Chrysler 318 went, so went Jeep.

        Yes, they are inefficient, and slow, that’s not the point, you could offroad in a ZJ with 250k miles on it and be ok.