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I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (16 children)

I am never buying a new car again. It will be hard, but I'm only buying old cars and repairing them. Not sure what to do about fuel when that stops. I Not sure about how to deal with a lot in the future, but I'm going to keep trying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (11 children)

You can have good luck just by buying 10 year old cars - they might have connectivity, but the it will be to a cell/network standard that no longer exists and so for practical purposes the car cannot connect to anything.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Planned obsolescence restoring our privacy through incompetence is kind of fun to think about.

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