"Please subscribe to continue operating your vehicle"
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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This is just asking to get rickroll’d.
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.
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Welp. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Of the class action variety.
Don’t worry, on the mountain of paperwork you sign when you buy a car there’s probably an arbitration clause somewhere.
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Barf
If you disconnect the car’s cellular network, do the ads go away?
Yes, but now the car can't pull data to operate the gas tank.
Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?
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Excited to see what they'll do with Revanced for cars.
Whenever I upgrade my car, if it has this “feature “ I will immediately change out the system.
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.
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This is old and they’ve already said it’s a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.
Be less gullible
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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?
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Speed run to bankruptcy.
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
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