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by iAMkenough 473 days ago
> Is there no way to boycott anyone advertising in our car? AND the car itself of course.

The obvious boycott would be to sell the car and never buy a Jeep again. Until the next car you buy is also updated to include ads and quietly sell tracking data they've collected about your family, so then you sell that car and never buy from that manufacturer again either.

Then before you know it, you end up buying an American-made luxury sedan to take the kids to soccer because you've convinced yourself that buying a premium ad-free car with the optional monthly subscription for the seat warmers is worth the investment and all the "affordable" options are either ad-supported American-built cars or artificially overpriced due to trade wars.

They'll backtrack if they lose enough money.

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> The obvious boycott would be to sell the car

The overwhelming majority of people finance their vehicles. It's not even their car to sell.

The important part is getting others to do so as well. You alone don't matter.

The big players here are KBB, edmunds, consumer reports, and all the car magazines. If they scream manufactures will listen.