They lied to you about car surveillance

- Yup. Fearing the same as well. All I'm asking for is a car, not a Windows computer.
  
  Sadly it seems our best bet would be to build it ourselves.
  
  Right, like if I want a tablet in my car I will just get a dash mount arm and throw whatever current gen tablet on it. I don't need it as a part of the car.
  
  Are you retarded? How would you see where you are going if you can't see.
- It will have to be the older gasoline dinosaurs, all the ones today spy
- Someone is bound to start selling conversion kits for regular cars eventually - turn your 20 year old gas dinosaur into a zippy EV or hybrid, no spyware required. We can already do it with two-wheelers, and Edison Motors is well on their way to making kits to turn big trucks into hybrids.
  
  That actually would be pretty cool. Especially mid sized SUVs that have AWD
  
  I tried this more than 15 years ago...
  Besides money, batteries and a lot of effort you know why it did not work?
  AUTHORITIES they would not "license" a converted car from gas to electric.
  and YES the SAME AUTHORITIES that are saying now and pretend to care about environment and push all these EVs and Hybrids to "Save our Planet"
  Fucking hypocrites!
- That's a good thing, you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot and compared to EVs they are far more repairable.
  
  People are aguing about the reparability thing a lot. Current electric cars are less reparable, but that is by design. Car manufacturers are using electric as an excuse to make cars harder to repair. The reality is that electric motors and batteries are dead simple, they just add a bunch of techno bullshit to make them worse. Charging is bad right now, but that will improve with time, just like gas did when gas cars were new. I like cars, and hate seeing them being turned into what they are today, but there is nothing fundamentally different about electric cars to make them the piles of absolute garbage they are, (apart from battery technology not being great right now). 90% of the problems with electric cars are there by design, and I think everyone should buy a car that isn't designed to suck, whether it's gas, electric, steam, or fart powered.
  
  No modern car by a major manufacture is easily repairable, ICE or EV.
  
  Hurr, my 1000 piece gas engine transmission are easier to fix than an electric motor with literally 2 bearings!
  
  This guy has an interesting perspective on that topic. He provides good points on how what you're saying could be wrong
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkabBP85e2I

Why exactly does vehicleprivacyreport want my VIN instead of year make and model? That’s me giving an unvetted third party website the unique tracking token for my car….
- Lets talk about IMEIs of our phones too... Why is it illegal to change your phone IMEI?
  Exactly!
  
  On one hand yes, but on the other hand, doesn't it confuse the cell network? I think the IMEI is used for routing or some other similarly basic operation. Like the MAC address, but it's for a larger area and more easily can cause trouble
- Hardware in cars, like hardware in computers drifts in configuration over manufacturing time. Some cars from a manufacturer might have some granularity of tracking that earlier units off the line didn't. Toyota does this with their Camry hybrids, for example.
  
  The model year and other relevant info is found in the first part of the VIN. There's no legit reason for it to demand the whole thing, which it does.

Do not use Odysee. It is run by Nazis and I don't mean Nazi by Lemmy standards I mean Nazi as in hating Jews. Half the comments people calling you a Jew in a derogatory sense. It is a safe haven for people who actively target anyone that is not white and strict southern Christian.
- You are correct, and thankfully peertube exists and is currently not full of nazis (at least from the instances I've checked). Their federation model seems to be opt in instead of opt out though, so it's hard to actually find content, unfortunately.
  The most populated instance I've found is https://tilvids.com/, which has a bunch of educational and tech videos.
- I worked for LBRY before Odysee spin off. Worst culture from the C-Suite you could ever imagine. Autistic sociopathy is the only way to describe it.
  
  That sucks to hear, at one point I was really hoping it would become a viable yt alternative. Not that I ever expected their cryptocurrency to "moon" but it was at least an interesting idea to compensate people for seeding video.
- oh wow, yeah. This stuff doesn't look well for the people running that site.
  https://odysee.com/@WorldTruthSeekers:6/JewishProblem:1
- I comment all the time there and read comments all the time. I never see any commenters attacked for being Jews ever. Look, that's not to say that Jew haters aren't on the platform, and I find it very annoying that they seem to be brigading the platform in the comment space, but the place certainly ain't run by Nazi's. It's just unfortunate that people like that have to ruin the reputation of the platform and turn people off from it. The comments seem far less moderated than the videos of the platform, because remember that moderation on the Odysee front-end does exist. I'm mostly saying this for the reader, since you probably already know this, but here is one example from the community guidelines:
  We don’t care about what you publish, livestream, comment, or include in channel descriptions for the most part. But we don’t allow the following: Content or posts that incite hatred or violence towards a particular group or person(s) based on, but not limited to the following: Ethnicity Disability Nationality Race Gender Religion Sexual orientation Social class/caste Gender identity/expression
  So you certainly can't argue that Odysee allows this content on the platform. I've only once (one time too many, though!) seen someone actually directly promote violence. I slimed it (disliked), reported it, and told other people to do the same (sliming it enough hides the comment like a spoiler), and the other viewers did so. That's the first time I've ever done that, but if you saw what he was promoting, you would probably think he should go to a mental ward. Thankfully, people did slime it, and it became hidden, before eventually being removed by the site moderators.
- Yeah I deleted my account instantly once I noticed how toxic it is.

Of course they lied about it. I don't know how anybody could have believed them in the first place.
- Because the general population doesn't know much about data privacy and they are purposefully mislead and inticed into accepting agreements that share all that information out. The point of NBTV is to raise awareness.
  
  They’re fed propaganda to believe that privacy doesn’t matter….
  But just imagine a Google admin had access to all the information about you and wanted to blackmail you into doing something…. The sheer power of that is terrifying.
  
  Exactly! This person knows what I am saying! ☝️

Bikes are great. Just saying.
- Until you have to travel over 40 miles in any direction.
  
  I live car-free, and I travel over 40 miles every now and then.
  
  40?
  You're in better shape than I am.
- And only some e-bikes have a built-in cell phone.
- You don't have a disability. Just saying.
  
  there are also many disabilities that prevents one from driving. Meanwhile infrastructure that is safe for bikes would also be safe for mobility devices travel
- How ableist of you. Like so many others, if I could ride a bike I would.
  
  How ableist of you to assume that we could read your reply.

Yes.

I'd be up for a review on new models, e.g https://kilow.com/pages/la-bagnole from France, which claims to be repairable.
- Was very intrigued but this isn't a serious alternative, they themselves refer to it as a toy multiple times on the website (even comes in it's own giant toy box).
  
  I'm not sure what you mean by "serious" here. Are you saying it's fake in the sense that it won't be sold? Or that the license plate would not actually legally allow it to on the road in France or Europe? Or some of the criteria, e.g autonomy, power, etc would make it realistically usable for any use case except literally playing in a playground?
- That thing looks hilarious!