Jeep Owners Dealing With Excessive Pop-Up Ads, Reminding Us How The Future Sucks
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The car company says that the ads were the result of a software glitch

At this pace, I’ll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

flashed … custom software

Any hints on where one might find details on this?

Its Xanavi. I don’t know if they’re still around as we did about 3-4 years ago now. There might be alternatives by now. I know its not as simple as just flashing an OS as unfortunately each head unit has a unique key that has to be preserved (else it stops working, I assume for anti-theft purposes)…

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