Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

• FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe not even intentionally. When games first became “online only” it was a big deal, now many games just break if they can’t initialize an internet connection. Even ones that don’t use it.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is total and complete bullshit that should be illegal.

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  • Philolurker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The best part is when the publisher shuts down the server on their end so the game breaks even if you are connected to the internet. I’m still waiting for Blood Dragon to get a patch to remove the periodic calls home, but it doesn’t seem likely at this point

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  • Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    this is a legit usecase of game cracking

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• halcyondays@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • sparky1337@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    VW hides a fair few of theirs behind the gauge cluster.

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• jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine getting lost in the middle of nowhere and your car refuses to start because it can’t get internet

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  • fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds like a feature to me. Gotta pay extra for that offline start capability. And if you don’t designate this far as your offline remote start car before hand you’re fucked.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think so. The risk of a PR disaster because a car refused to start, due to them not having a signal either due to an outage, or being underground, is too great.

  Car companies probably don’t want to deal with the headlines of “Man left stranded in parking garage after his car was unable to connect to the internet”, or “Woman marooned on mountainside because the car could not connect with the servers”.

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• Darorad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably not, I’m sure there’s plenty of situations they wouldn’t have network connections, so we’d have prohably heard about it if it were na issue with existing cars.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d be interested in the ramifications of just clipping the network module/chip

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• 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some brands it’s easy.

  I know my Ford just has a data toggle. Turn it off and it stops sending and receiving data from the cloud.

  But stuff stops working when I do that. The traffic, and app stuff all need it I think. Gps has a toggle too but it just seems to turn off the map stuff.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The newest car ive ever driven is from 2007, I legit dont see a downside to disabling that shit.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What we want is to be able to direct the data, in standard protocols, to a server of our choosing. To be able to use apps of our choosing. No damn lock-ins.

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    • 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they don’t get benefits from the data, why won’t spend money putting in the features

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It probably need to be regulation. It’s not a space competition alone will work for. Very few consumers will choose one car over another due to privacy options.

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At some point would the vehicle refuse to operate without a network connection?

  No doubt.

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