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  • Then why are you acting like you don't know?

  • Depends entirely on your car make and model. On many models you can disconnect or remove the fuse for the telematics control unit (TCU) and it's as simple as that. However you won't receive any OTA updates that will likely solve problems. And if you reconnect to get them, there's no guarantee your car doesn't suddenly dump all your personal data obtained in the meantime onto company servers. Further I find it more and more likely that OEMs either already have or will add a ToS that requires you to keep all this stuff connected, and they'll argue that the data collection is part of the sale.

    Slate seems to be the only brand currently that intends to deliver vehicles with zero connectivity required.

  • That's cool for you, I was speaking generally

  • Did they actually "hack" it though or is it just clickbait

  • SLAMS

  • Not unless they don't want to keep doing business in Spain.

  • Still a whole lot more than 30.

  • ...have you ever used it?

  • TOR is great for privacy but obviously awful for daily use.

  • What's "OSA shit"?

  • ~93 miles. I would argue probably too much. Most people are traveling <30 miles/day in US. Probably a whole lot less in JP. That's why most PHEVs are 30-40 mi.

    E: I speak in statistical facts and everyone tells me I'm wrong bc their anecdotes 🤷

  • How exactly would the UK Government enforce a law

    Govts don't just not make legislation because they don't know how to enforce it. They make the law, and they figure out the enforcement later. VPS providers will comply because they don't give a single shit about your privacy and aren't going to take the risk.

  • And you think VPSs would be omitted from this legislation?

  • Jesus fuck, I'm so tired of this "everyone who disagrees with me or I don't understand is 'trolling'" nonsense. I can't even be bothered to discuss anything further. Goodbye.

  • I could ask you the same question.

  • I don't understand. The proposed legislation would force ID verification for Mullvad users. You're still a Mullvad user, regardless of whether you connect through your VPS.

  • I've always wondered why we aren't buying/hacking info about politicians that support anti-privacy legislation from these databrokers and leaking it to the public. If I had the knowledge that's what I'd be doing. I can't think of anything that would be more effective.

  • People are using VPNs to circumvent identity verification, so this solves nothing.

  • Then you've not solved anything because that IP is still unique to you.