A pirated car would just be a more free way to access the $10k/yr pay wall you live your life behind. Car-dominant infrastructure is vendor lock in.

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  • @Weslee
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    458 months ago

    Everything is crackable, I bet the software in the car is as cheaply made as everything else

    • squiblet
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      228 months ago

      Worse, generally. Car manufacturers are completely awful with privacy and also very bad at security.

      • gullible
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        18 months ago

        A major revenue stream for the auto companies is deliciously geolocated marketing data. I’m scared that the advertising fat cap will eventually become a sizable portion of their revenue stream and thus their intended use case. Like giant rolling smart tvs.

    • voxel
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      38 months ago

      this subscription involves a mobile plan and access to a backend service though

      • @Weslee
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        18 months ago

        There is plenty of subscription or always online software out there that is cracked and fully working, Adobe products, Microsoft office, Spotify, etc.

        Obviously any service that can’t be replaced with a free or open source alternative won’t work, first thing I think that would be on the chopping block would be anything that uses GPS, though that’s just a guess, I don’t really have intimate knowledge of this