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> …and receive offers tailored to their interests… The day my car starts showing me advertisements of any kind is the day I take a sledgehammer to its infotain

> …and receive offers tailored to their interests… The day my car starts showing me advertisements of any kind is the day I take a sledgehammer to its infotainment system. For a luxury car brand to even include this in their copy they send out is a bit worrying.

harry8 4y ago
do you remove all their advertising badges, model numbers, logos from the outside of your car too?
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  Out of the park non sequitur.
  - harry8 4y ago
    What? Someone hates advertising and especially with their car. Absolutely reasonable position to take. I ask them how far they go with that? Reasonable to go absolutely hardcore and get rid of /all/ of it. Reasonable to say that level of advertising isn't that annoying so not worth the effort. I ask which because I'm interested in the response. None of that looks particularly controversial to me and I'm not seeing a non-sequitur. I refer you to the guidelines recommended by the house which are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html See what you make of them.
    - saagarjha 4y ago
      Do you not see a difference from a Mercedes logo on the hood and and McDonald’s ads blaring from the infotainment system?
      - harry8 4y ago
        Obviously they are different. You think they are beyond what I just painstakingly pointed out as one of degree and a degree that you are entitled to feel differently about each case? How do you think your comment advances the discussion, just out of interest? Fwiw I don't tune my radio to commercial FM. I do have badges on the outside of my car and I kinda wish I didn't but not enough (yet) to have done something about it. I don't wear clothes that turn me into a flipping nike/ralph lauren/chanel/gucci/whatever billboard either but I can see this puts me in some kind of strange minority but I still find wearing advertising without being paid really weird. Sadly badges on cars are a little harder to not buy or remove. You? Where are you drawing your line?
        saagarjha 4y ago
        The difference between those two things is kind of like the difference between skipping beef on Mondays and refusing to eat food that was cooked in the same kitchen as meat. It doesn’t really make sense to ask without context, right?
        harry8 4y ago
        Someone says they are ethically opposed to eating meat. Ask them how far they go with that. There ya go, fixed the analogy for you. Do you understand now?
      - qualudeheart 4y ago
        Mercedes is high status. McDonalds is low status. To be able to see the Mercedes Star is a privilege.
        harry8 4y ago
        Wearing mcdonalds logos on your clothes or car shows you're "important," "successful," and "influential" enough to be paid to do that. Trumpeting a mercedes logo on your car to try and claim status shows you're something else. Just a different way of looking at status, and one no less valid than yours. But I think we've digressed beyond it being a useful direction to continue.
- izacus 4y ago
  Funny enough, pretty much all German brands give you that as a selectable option for like 100eur :D You get a car with most badging removed.
  - harry8 4y ago
    Would gladly pay 100eur for zero badging.

harry8 4y ago

do you remove all their advertising badges, model numbers, logos from the outside of your car too?

DoingIsLearning 4y ago
Out of the park non sequitur.
- harry8 4y ago
  What? Someone hates advertising and especially with their car. Absolutely reasonable position to take. I ask them how far they go with that? Reasonable to go absolutely hardcore and get rid of /all/ of it. Reasonable to say that level of advertising isn't that annoying so not worth the effort. I ask which because I'm interested in the response. None of that looks particularly controversial to me and I'm not seeing a non-sequitur. I refer you to the guidelines recommended by the house which are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html See what you make of them.
  - saagarjha 4y ago
    Do you not see a difference from a Mercedes logo on the hood and and McDonald’s ads blaring from the infotainment system?
    - harry8 4y ago
      Obviously they are different. You think they are beyond what I just painstakingly pointed out as one of degree and a degree that you are entitled to feel differently about each case? How do you think your comment advances the discussion, just out of interest? Fwiw I don't tune my radio to commercial FM. I do have badges on the outside of my car and I kinda wish I didn't but not enough (yet) to have done something about it. I don't wear clothes that turn me into a flipping nike/ralph lauren/chanel/gucci/whatever billboard either but I can see this puts me in some kind of strange minority but I still find wearing advertising without being paid really weird. Sadly badges on cars are a little harder to not buy or remove. You? Where are you drawing your line?
      - saagarjha 4y ago
        The difference between those two things is kind of like the difference between skipping beef on Mondays and refusing to eat food that was cooked in the same kitchen as meat. It doesn’t really make sense to ask without context, right?
        harry8 4y ago
        Someone says they are ethically opposed to eating meat. Ask them how far they go with that. There ya go, fixed the analogy for you. Do you understand now?
    - qualudeheart 4y ago
      Mercedes is high status. McDonalds is low status. To be able to see the Mercedes Star is a privilege.
      - harry8 4y ago
        Wearing mcdonalds logos on your clothes or car shows you're "important," "successful," and "influential" enough to be paid to do that. Trumpeting a mercedes logo on your car to try and claim status shows you're something else. Just a different way of looking at status, and one no less valid than yours. But I think we've digressed beyond it being a useful direction to continue.
izacus 4y ago
Funny enough, pretty much all German brands give you that as a selectable option for like 100eur :D You get a car with most badging removed.
- harry8 4y ago
  Would gladly pay 100eur for zero badging.