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BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display (consumerrights.wiki)
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[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 204 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Imagine paying the kind of prices that car manufactures demand, and then they shove ads in your face on your own property. I would drive it back to the dealership & demand a refund.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 75 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can probably have an ad-free system for a monthly subscription.

Wankers.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's Bayerische Motoren Wankers AG to you.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's crazy that few days ago I learned what BMW stands for and now I see it everywhere.

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

it's called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion?wprov=sfla1

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought it was Bavarian Motor Works or something? Logo was a propeller? No? This is what I’ve always known it to be.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Correct. It's Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.

The German Werk has several meanings:

  1. The process of work/the work itself needed to finish a specific task.
  2. A specific action. E.g. used to imply someone did $thing
  3. A specific thing that was produced by someone (e.g. a piece of art) or even someone's lifeworks as a whole.
  4. A factory or industrial complex BUT ALSO depending on context the workers on said factory/complex.
[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  1. Kraftwerk if you want old German techno
[–] wols@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago
  1. Overwerk for more modern tastes
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shprockets! Dance!

[–] Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

i'm as happy as a little girrrl

[–] mbp@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Blessed info

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, is the proper name, but sometimes people anglicized it to Bavarian Motor Works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ad free*

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yup. Netflix will advertise its shows to you on the ad-free* tier, but say they're not ads.