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schizoidman@schizoidman@lemmy.zip
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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/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/
The AutopianBMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The AutopianYou know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, say, BMW. This is a machine with some status! Let’s say it costs, oh, $61,500, and you’re paying, what, about $1300 a month? Something […]
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RememberTheApollo_@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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What an awful “premium” brand. They’re the same ones trying for subscription access to heated seats, remote start, or driver assistance features among others.

What a crap brand.

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BigTwerp@BigTwerp@feddit.uk
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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…

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FistingEnthusiast@FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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You’re lying.

Dunno why, but it’s kinda lame

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BigTwerp@BigTwerp@feddit.uk
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Adverts for BY D own products are still adverts.

Truth hurts?

Ok you do you.

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FistingEnthusiast@FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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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

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ripcord@ripcord@lemmy.world
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Maybe some have them, some don’t?

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BackgrndNoize@BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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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.

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CmdrShepard49@CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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So you admit you have advertisements too but then say the user is “full of shit” for claiming there are ads? Weird.

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ayyy@ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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What a strange thing to not believe someone about.

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