ANglEAUT:

 

 

 

Data quality eh

You may have bought the car but THEY own YOU !

kingdragonfly: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Only their complaints department survived the general economic implosion of the company as a whole.

Jeep, Ram, And Chrysler Are Still Pushing Pop-Up Ads To Your Dashboard But Here’s How To Make It Stop: The autopian

Remember earlier this year when people with Jeeps and other Stellantis products were complaining about how they were getting pop-up ads on their center stack infotainment screens, like filthy animals? And they were having trouble opting out of these miserable ads? Then a Stellantis representative told me that the lack of ability to opt out was just a glitch! It’ll get taken care of! But you know what wasn’t a glitch? The ads themselves.
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I can’t think of anything that might unite humanity more in these wildly divided times than the notion that not getting pop-up ads on your car’s infotainment screen is better, vastly, richly better, than getting stupid ads on there.
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And yet, somehow, Stellantis is still trying to make this happen. Here’s a recent tweet from some poor afflicted Stellantis owner, showing [this month's] pop-up ad on a Ram 1500:

 

 

 

 

 

It will be interesting here.

it is illegal in NZ to have a "TV screen" that can be seen by the driver as it is considered a distraction, much the same as Phones are a distraction.

So I would suggest that adverts are ALSO a distraction and could/should be banned here too.

sir1963:

 

it is illegal in NZ to have a "TV screen" that can be seen by the driver as it is considered a distraction, much the same as Phones are a distraction.

 

They should also ban touchscreen displays... 

I don't understand why people refuse to spellcheck things. If you're writing a paragraph then you might have a typo. In this case it's a nine-page document and it's riddled with errors that would have been caught with a simple spellcheck.

Behodar:

 

I don't understand why people refuse to spellcheck things. If you're writing a paragraph then you might have a typo. In this case it's a nine-page document and it's riddled with errors that would have been caught with a simple spellcheck.

 

Only AI will write without a typo.

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I write with constant typos but I spell check and proofread before posting (and typos still get through!).

Real estate website Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listing site, has removed a feature that allowed people to view a property’s exposure to the climate crisis, following complaints from the industry and some homeowners that it was hurting sales.

 

In September last year, the online real estate marketplace introduced a tool showing the individual risk of wildfire, flood, extreme heat, wind and poor air quality for one million properties it lists, explaining that “climate risks are now a critical factor in home-buying decisions” for many Americans.

 

But Zillow has now deleted this climate index in the wake of complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The complaints included those from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which oversees a database of property data that Zillow relies upon.

 

I've often thought that you can't trust product reviews on the manufacturer's own website (what's stopping them from deleting anything critical?) but in this case they don't seem to be looking at them at all, as evidenced by a glowing review (with photo) of a product from a competing manufacturer, posted in 2024.