cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41400661

104 points

Ah i see, time for ford to go down in the history books.

Not like that will happen, but i truly think they deserve that as a result for even considering this.

I’m already sick of the amount of ads that find a way into my private living space, but i’ve managed to negate 90% of them.

“We need to make money” yeah sure, but not at the cost of me. If you want to make money off of me i need you to sell me stuff i get to keep and are actually worth the cost.

I work too much and make too little to allow them to invade my private space.

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Time for a law to be passed that kills off this bad idea permanently.

The main cause of fatal accidents is driver distraction. Anything that adds to it is moving in the wrong direction.

They should also ban the use of tablet computers in place of proper displays and controls in vehicles.

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11 points

Time for a law to be passed that kills off this bad idea permanently.

With governments (of all alignments) in the pockets of, or otherwise under the influence of, the very large corporations whose advertising would stand to benefit from this, I have only the following to say: Good luck with that.

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1 point

That’s not enough. Amazon tablets started with ads only on Lock Screen and startup. Those are also not ok

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23 points

As Ford doesn’t suck enough lol

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That’s Ford’s version of innovation, finding new ways to suck more

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2 points

Please don’t badmouth Ford for using their first amendment right to freedom of speech you un-American swine /s

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17 points

From ugly to useless and ugly. Nice.

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if they give people those cars freely, why not

edit for the downvotes : i’m not proAdvertisement. I’m just considering a situation where, let’s say in a city with a shared car service, you rent cars for a couple of hours you need, instead of owning a car (it already exists in some cities). I guess some people would be willing to see a couple of ads instead of paying for the rental and in that case: why not

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9 points

Free for the first year and they will eventually charge for the “Standard subscription with ads”. You can always upgrade to premium. Hopefully, the adaptive suspension will then start working!

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22 points

they probably have rental car companies in mind, where if the driver has no choice but a ford with ads, then that’s what they get. and you can bet your ass that if forcing ads on customers means a lower price for their fleet, that’s exactly what they’re going to do

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10 points

Fucking hell you’re right

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16 points

I’m looking forward to having the ads from Cyberpunk 2077: “Sweet sweet sweet clean SPEED! 'Cause life is too short to be slow.”

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