CAR TALK Bought by Amazon?

The main page has an article about cleaning the touch screens in vehicles . That could be of some help to people . But every product has a link to Amazon web site.

Me thinks this is just another sign that the Car Talk internet presence is nearing it’s end.

Not necessarily. Amazon could be a good source of revenue and would keep this forum open.

I think one of the new Amazon warehouses in my area is named after my wife and myself… lol

The local Target has Mrs JT’s name on it. :wink:

Any popular website will sell advertising. Amazon is probably one of their biggest buyers. When you design a webpage you add space for advertising that can be added dynamically through a DB or other type of method. It’s pretty simple to do.

The screen cleaning article just looks like one of those click bait things all over the web . Also it just seems like a lazy way to send customers to Amazon. Maybe they should have had a note saying Amazon had paid a fee to Car Talk .

I even wonder if the author has even used all of those products .

And once you go add free (DDG etc) it really shows up towards the top of the page here…

That’s exactly the way my screen looks. Some URLs are unmanageable without ad-blockers.

Even Consumer Reports does this, but not just Amazon.

Ever tried to go to jalopnik? I stopped going there because they literally were unreadable. Ads covered their content everywhere. Like trying to read through a straw. Must had been some real dumb webmasters there.

I used to like Jalopnik a few years ago

However, they gradually lost their better people, imo

It was a great loss when David Tracy left, as far as I’m concerned