Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
The_v@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is not that new.
Android auto would allow apps to play ads when the car was in park.
After using the ad support version of Pandora for most of a decade, when the full screen video ad popped up on my 2016 work truck, it was immediately and permanently uninstalled. I used 128gb microSD in my phone instead.
I’ve never used a streaming service for music again.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s another thing that bugs me about products that can be remotely-updated and which don’t currently represent an ongoing revenue stream. I think that it’s a broader problem, too.
I was kind of not enthusiastic when I discovered that TenCent bought Oxygen Not Included and started pushing data-harvesting updates into it via Steam. As things stand, that’s optional. But any company could do the same with other games and not have it be optional. If you figure that all the games out there that have already been sold aren’t actually generating revenue but do represent the option to push and execute code on someone’s computer, they have value to some other company that could purchase them and monetize that.
Then you figure that the same applies to browser extensions.
And apps on phones.
Like, if I buy a product, all I can do when I make my purchasing decision is to evaluate the product as it is at purchase time. If the vendor also has the ability and right to change that product whenever they want, then what I’m actually buying is a pretty big question mark.