Another car maker banned from my life forever (kotaku.com)
from jjlinux@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 23:01
https://lemmy.ml/post/25944848

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

#privacy

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surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 15:27 next collapse

Jeep owners are the perfect target for this. Not exactly the kind of people doing a lot of research before purchasing a vehicle. Or else they wouldn’t buy a jeep.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 12:55 collapse

Guilty as charged, I owned a total of 5 jeep/Chrysler/Dodge vehicles way back when. Moved to Infiniti, then Tesla (fucking got rid of it within a year) and now I have a Chinese BYD with every telematic disabled.

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 05:01 collapse

Haha. Yeah man, you’re not hyper focused on total cost of ownership. They know their audience!

FriedRice@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 23:12 collapse

Are there still some e cars without bloatware and privacy issues??

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 13 Feb 00:09 collapse

Not really, they’ve all had telemetry for probably 20 years.

The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn’t saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)

piccolo@sh.itjust.works on 13 Feb 02:48 collapse

My 2016 doesnt have a modem. It has a Sirus radio…but sirus operates one way and has no way to communicate back.

Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works on 13 Feb 08:19 collapse

My Japanese export 2016 doesn’t either. Aside from the fact that we flashed the head unit with custom software, there’s nothing for it to connect to in my country anyway.

droplet6585@lemmy.ml on 13 Feb 22:31 collapse

flashed … custom software

Any hints on where one might find details on this?

Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works on 18 Feb 05:45 collapse

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)…