Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight

Welp, my days of not buying Dodge cars seem to be coming to a middle.

Damn, I would be pissed if my car started showing ads. I hope this enshitification doesn't spread.

I thought GM foregoing CarPlay in favor of their own proprietary UI was a great way to kill sales, this is absolutely genius. Way to ensure I would never purchase your products!

Took my Dodge vehicle in for service. They wanted my email address "so they can get in touch with me if I don't answer the phone." I gave it to them.

It took less than half a day for the first spam mail to hit my inbox.

If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.

Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn't enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?

I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.

We need root on our car computers.

They really don't make them like they used to.

adds Dodge to the no buy list

You'd may as well run the red light

Forget about just the web. Modern tech is about to become unusable due to ads.

It seems like displaying an ad at a stop light would be a safety issue since it makes it so you can onky look at the screen while moving.

Blows my mind that this kind of stuff isn’t a safety issue… I guess as long as it’s “touch-free” it’s not considered distracted driving lol

Oh, look...!!

Yet another good reason I'll not buy a new car. 🙄

Perfectly happy with my current 03 model thank you...

I am so happy that my car doesn’t update itself automatically

If this ever happens to any car I buy, it'd be going right back to the dealer.

You do realize this is based on a almost half-a-year old reddit post? What has happens in the meantime?

Note to self, never buy a Stelantis car. Not that I have ever considered that anyway!

“Glitch”

More like

“Let’s see how people react”

I mean like I need another reason to NOT buy a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram

You know, I always expected Tesla to be the first to do this kind of shit, but never underestimate Stellantis's commitment to be at the bottom.

This is like shooting a hole in the bottom of the boat so the leaking water has somewhere to go out.

Next thing you know they'll find a way to advertise in our dreams

Been doing this with Jeeps already. They claimed it was a mistake.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/jeep-in-car-ads-popup-stellantis-software-revenue/

They'll see the sales of the Charger tank and will conclude that people just don't want muscle cars, which is sad because in the next few years I was thinking about getting one.

Oh well, what can you do.

There was an article about this few months ago and the exact same reddit post was used there as evidence of this being true. This was most likely a bug and it probably has been fixed since. If what the headline claims here was true there would be tons of videos of it happening to different people on YouTube.

Also known as how to ensure a robust used car market until they pull their head out of their ass.

It's so insane how seemingly every company wants to fuck over all their customers these days. Their obsession with fucking infinite growth.

"Please subscribe to continue operating your vehicle"

This is just asking to get rickroll’d.

Welp. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Of the class action variety.

If you just do a standing burnout at every light will it not pop up?

Barf

Excited to see what they'll do with Revanced for cars.

This is old and they’ve already said it’s a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.

I'm surprised Dodge is trying this considering the thousands of memes of BMW implementing pay to use features on their vehicle ever since they added subscription heated seats.

If you disconnect the car’s cellular network, do the ads go away?

Weren't they going to discontinue both the charger and challenger?

I'd get rid of that car so fast it would make your head spin. There is no car I'd put up having this garbage to keep

Speed run to bankruptcy.

Whenever I upgrade my car, if it has this “feature “ I will immediately change out the system.

I’ve been debating getting a new car after paying a ton to fix up my old one but now I think I’ll keep her forever.

Anybody got a lead on a rebuilt turbo for a 2.0L TSI?

time for a new sound system then, lmao

@KayLeadfoot
Maybe try uBlock Origin on that "muscle" car?