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Why the fuck don’t you sell that spying smart piece of shit then? You know, they aren’t really forcing us to buy new trendy things.
That's the state of vehicles these days. I bought the Subaru I'm driving now because my 2005 Saturn was getting harder and harder to maintain. (And because I wanted more than 1,000 cubic centimeters of cargo space. (Yes, I'm being hyperbolic, but yeah.))
Subaru is hardly the worst offender on privacy. I don't know that I could have gotten a less "smart" car without getting an older vehicle, and the one I was selling was harder to maintain specifically because it was old.
I think the best we can hope for is hackable devices. Being able to just remove the DCM fuse is "hackable" in my book. I got a robot vacuum cleaner, but I got the model that's best for running Valetudo. I got a smartphone with an unlocked bootloader so I could run LineageOS. I didn't get a Nintendo Switch until the Fusee Gilee vulnerability was discovered. I didn't really shop around for a "hackable" car before I bought this Subaru. But I'm satisfied with the "just unplug the DCM fuse" solution.