[yashg]

Everything is becoming about ads. Ads, ads everywhere. On phone, on computer, now even car. This despite everyone knowing that consumers HATE ads. It's like companies are using ads as a ransom. Pay us more money on a regular basis else we will make your life miserable with ads and more ads.

[9dev]

And then, once everyone is paying more, they pull the coup de grace, and show you ads again! Netflix and Prime and Spotify started with this a while ago; I guess the temptation is just too big to let corporate greed run free.

I guess we’ve come full circle, and the next iteration will see people pirating stuff again. It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though…

[DJHenk]

Ads are a cancer. They take valuable resources from legitimate functionality just to multiply and multiply, until the host is starved to death.

[lostlogin]

> It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though

If you can find a way to get by with minimal car use, it’s amazing. Not possible for many/most, but wow is Ford trying to push people away.

> the next iteration will see people pirating stuff again

With automation the world has become amazing. The first rule of fight club applies.

[lodovic]

> It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though…

your speakers are connected with only two wires.

[n_ary]

Off-topic:

Eagerly waiting for the potty bowl to start playing ads depending on the chemical composition of the particular waste… it would go: “Your zinc ratio is low, have you tried blah blah? After my doctor prescribed blah blah I can focus on my life more and is more productive and …”

[getwiththeprog]

ad absurdum, therefore on topic.

[lm28469]

That's what happens when innovation is dead and you need to pay the bills: you have to make current products profitable and the easiest way is to pack them with ads

[franga2000]

If the current products aren't profitable already, how does does the company exist?

This doesn't really apply in the Ford case, but the real question is why we let companies burn money to get market share, killing existing sustanable businesses in the process? Once no competition is left, they raise prices and decrease quality, ending up with a worse product than we had before.

[ASalazarMX]

Innovation in the automotive industry is far from dead, this is just the greed from investors seeping through every pore of the company, trying to squeeze as much money as they can get away with.

Making maximum profits for their shareholders should not be the highest goal of corporations nowadays, if they're persons they've become sociopaths.

[psychoslave]

It's more like "we are going to kidnap your children to make them some brain washed slaves, extract money from you with mass spying, ask a ransom with no intention to change what we plane to do if you pay or not"

[danaris]

Wall Street demands infinite growth. The Fed raised interest rates above zero, so money isn't free* anymore. Treating your customers like human beings, rather than bags of money with legs that it is your bounden duty to drain dry, just isn't popular anymore.

* for a certain value of "free"

[1-6]

Gathering data under the disguise of presenting ads now in your car.

[fennecbutt]

I just hate how disgustingly time wasting and pointless they are. Modern marketing is so piss poor.

Especially on mobile, endless ads for regular apps I already have installed but mostly for shitty ripoff trash games.

I am always 0% interested in downloading it, so why the FUCK has it become de rigeur to force the ad to be shown for 30-60 seconds.

I've read into it a little and apparently even negative reaction to an ad still has a positive effect on brand recognition, but how does this apply to shitty mobile games.

Our governments are failing us by not regulating this utter bs, it's so incensing. But then again that's all smiling politicians ever do, take money under the table while the grinning general population votes for em again and again.

[chairmansteve]

Half of HN is probably working on ad tech.

[eddyg]

Consumers don’t hate ads. HN readers hate ads. Given the choice, most people prefer ads to paying more to not have ads. FAST (free ad-supported TV) is taking over (again). It’s comparable to how a contingent of HN readers think there is a problem with using Google, while nearly everyone else uses nothing but Google.

Reference: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3735026-fast-growth-for-fast-m...

[Mordisquitos]

While I do agree that HN readers are not representative of the general population, and we almost certainly are more ad-averse on average, hating ads is still common overall. Don't be fooled by the fact that less-technically-skilled individuals may find it harder to block ads than we do, or are less likely to identify covert advertisements disguised as legitimate search results.

Case in point, when I was a kid my dad (of "Boomer" age, but from a country where the generational name does not apply) really, really, really insisted on muting advertisements on TV whenever they came on. He made an effort to instill in me the idea that advertisements were lies trying to sell rubbish, and even though I do not have such an emotionally charged reaction to the concept of ads as he does, I still radically block them by all means necessary.

[kaliqt]

I disagree. I hate irrelevant ads, I enjoy relevant ads.

This is unrelated to the aforementioned topic though.

[leobg]

Relevant ads is functional search, is it not? Ideally, search without the need to query.