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by EvanAnderson 41 days ago
I cannot imagine the lack of concern about my privacy that it would take to make me daily-drive a car that hadn't been put through this process.

(I dread the day my 2007 Civic is no longer usable.)

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Not to mention, people kept saying "Who cares, you're being silly" then multiple companies were caught selling into to insurance companies.
This is why I hate the online car owner forums. Car owners ask reasonable questions like these and people sneer in their replies saying "that's a horrible idea" as if somehow every car owner agreed to universal tracking into telemetry and is totally fine with it.
My daily is a 1997 Range Rover. You want to update the computer? Sure, you need to remove the desktop PC-sized box of 68HC11-family chips from under the driver's seat and desolder the two big 144-pin ones.