You get 1 notification when you first get the app/car, then you shouldn't ever again unless you agree to the terms and conditions.
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I paid full price for this car, why am I forced to deal with so many ads?
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Exactly. Tesla is exploiting the fact that I need to use the app and allow notifications for regular usage of my car, and they are using that advantage to push ads at me.
In other words, my car is spamming me and I can't do anything to stop it other than to disable some core functionality. Not sure why everyone thinks this is normal and OK.
edit: Or can I? This app setting seems new, and seems promising. Maybe I'll just go back to complaining about the menu.
I mentioned this up thread, but I have gotten 2 of these since I got my car in 2018, so its >1 but I dont know many people who consider "2" to be "a lot".
Did you re-install the app at one point? My wife and I have one had the original and none since. Even when we upgrade phones each year, it's not there.
I have re installed the app a couple of times over the years since 2018, yes. Not recently though (and I did not get this push notification the OP is talking about, that sounds like it went out recently)
lowtek
Active Member
Not once has an ad showed in the app for me or the wifey ... over the years we've owned 5 (about to be 6) Teslas ...
8% based on what measurement? The main menu doesnt have any ads at all that I can see, unless you consider a button that reaches another page that contains options that can be purchased online. By that logic a grocery stores should not be showing price labels ("How dare they advertise what price I have to pay!").
You and the wifey are on same account, no? So that's one vs. the three people in this thread saying they have received spam like this.
Maybe you didn't get this message because you are (or are not) on some list the solar sales group maintains. Or maybe the difference is Android vs iOS. Or maybe it went to a randomized selection of customers.
Anyway, I was annoyed but if I hadn't seen this thread I would have forgotten about it. Spam is a part of life these days.
ucmndd
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GHammer
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Yes and it "clutters" an entire 8% of precious screen space at the very bottom of a menu.The “upgrades” button at the bottom of the menu is an “ad”?
Again, super weird that the overwhelming majority response to my complaint about ads in the car sums up to:
"The ads aren't that big"
"That's not an ad, it's just a SHOP NOW button linking to stuff they want to sell you"
"The ads aren't that big"
"That's not an ad, it's just a SHOP NOW button linking to stuff they want to sell you"
if your post was just about the Loot Box, it would be reasonable as there are others that had a notification for it, but with the added "8% of the menu is ads" troll...no one is taking it seriously.
ucmndd
Well-Known Member
I mean, the "upgrades" button is just objectively NOT an advertisement. It's a necessary and even useful vehicle control to enable features exclusively relevant to the operation of said vehicle, buried at the bottom of a menu you have to actively click into to find.
The idea that it's an "ad" in the same way as an unsolicited push notification to buy solar is patently stupid.
Furthermore, it's pretty easy to disable push notifications for "ads" in the app too, ya? Profile -> Settings -> News and Events
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GHammer
Dark Star
Super weird that you think this is super weird.
I don't know. Seems Tesla is being a little disingenuous and using advertising trickery to get us to click on it.
If the thread title was something like:
"Did anyone else get this Push notification and find it intrusive?"
and the content was about surprise about getting a push notification from tesla, this thread would look quite a bit different, and likely have almost universal agreement. With that being said, It appears to me that the thread title was not picked at random, it was picked to "get conversation going", which it has obviously succeeded at.
Yes instead of the extreme hyperbole and click bait title with "...forced to deal with so may ads".
M109Rider
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You likely nailed it.
The VAST majority of Trolls, Tesla haters, and Tesla Bashers on this forum have felt scorned for something they feel they are entitled to but of course aren’t. And when you tell those people “No, Tesla doesn’t give customers things they aren’t entitled to”, they attack, and inevitably show up here, because how dare you tell them no.
You also have short sellers that lost their shirts, oil company staff, competing auto makers, media, etc. the list is long.
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