[hef19898]

Oh dear... I never thought it was that bad... Well, one more reason to stick with simple USB or Bluetooth connections for calls and music in cars and never even remotely touch Android Auto or something similar. If it is a piece of hardware, I want to own it. No subscriptions, no phoning home for ehatever reason (as a functional requirement for said hardware or legal reason, well, not much choice here). If someone needs and wants OBD data from my cars, they'll have to plug in I guess. And I don't have any issue with garages doing it for diagnostics. Over the air, through my phone, to Google, just for me to stream music? No way!

All I hope now is, that your plain old Bluetooth connection doesn't do anything like that... If it wasn't for economic reasons (read: dreadfully bad MPG), my 40 year old Range Rover would propably be my daily driver one day, good luck getting tracking data out of that car!