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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat (www.theautopian.com)
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[–] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I leased a BYD seal for the last few weeks as an extended test drive and it has adverts on the screen you use to change the climate control so...

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Picture? I tried searching for an example online and couldn't find one

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is much more acceptable when the product itself is cheap. See also: “smart” TVs for a hundred bucks.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

it may be 100x more acceptable, but 100 times 0 is still 0.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You're lying.

Dunno why, but it's kinda lame

[–] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Adverts for BY D own products are still adverts.

Truth hurts?

Ok you do you.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The adverts that I have never once seen when I drive my car?

Pretty cool how we live in some parallel reality

Or, you could just be full of shit

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Tech companies do something called A/B testing where they will release a "feature" such as Ads to a segment of the user base and not to the others to see how they respond to decide if they want to release it to everyone, so yes in many instances we do live in parallel realities.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe some have them, some don't?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

What a strange thing to not believe someone about.