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05-18-2023, 10:01 PM | #1 |
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Disable all data/cellular connection
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I’m a big privacy freak and was wondering if there’s a way to make my connected car “un-connected”. I don’t really care if the connected features become unavailable as a result. Has anyone else figured out a way to pull the related fuse or any other way to disable the eSIM module from the car? |
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I’d rather physically render the system incapable of communicating. Even when “connected services” is disabled from the app, the car STILL sends over telemetry data including usage and location etc. |
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I get where you're coming from as far as the privacy stuff. At this point though, it's almost a lost cause. I avoid the obvious stuff (like Facebook), but I've never worried too much about the car stuff. Your phone is probably tracking similar stuff the car is (location, etc.) |
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I haven’t gotten my car yet but I’ll try to find a way to disable connection to the internet altogether. Like pulling an antenna somewhere or something like that. So it just doesn’t have the signal. |
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That would disable FM radios and in-car GPS too. Also, I’m not sure cellular antenna is in the shark-fin. I’ll have to figure this out when I get my car in a couple of weeks. Thankfully it’s only ID7; ID8 would’ve been a privacy and security nightmare; one more step closer to “you own nothing”.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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05-20-2023, 07:59 AM | #11 |
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I can respect that. I’d have a tough time in my current job without one, but sometimes I feel like it’s more of a distraction than what it’s worth, so I can see where you’re coming from
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Have you found any solution to this ? Thanks a lot |
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10-06-2024, 01:44 PM | #13 |
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I believe that would disable connected services like remote start, lock, etc as well. Everything everywhere is collecting information about you from grocery stores to weather apps (this site is likely even being scraped by a third party if for nothing else than AI data). I'm ok with a lot of it but I refuse to be on Facebook and other social media sites where they track every little thing.
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