@HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS
2026-06-23 07:14 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Zenlix@lemmy.ml 2026-06-23 07:37
Just another shitty company.
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@Triumph@fedia.io 2026-06-23 07:49
Class action for unilaterally modifying the agreement about feature access after the fact and to the detriment of the consumer.
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@badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2026-06-23 21:58
All of this leads back to an old rhetorical question I’ve often asked. Why the fuck isn’t the whole entertainment system and car connection just a standard touchscreen and communication protocol? The fact that I need these proprietary patent-gated apps to use parts of my car, instead of just a driver that could work on any device with the right port, is overtly user-hostile.
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@daggermoon@piefed.world 2026-06-23 10:03
Why does a car need an android app?
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-06-24 04:40
Why they do this: After the first three years, Volkswagen is charging ev customers €150/year to see the charge level on the app, remotely start the air conditioning, schedule charge and so on. Any tinkerer is thinking “well, if I am paying this extortion just to see the charge level on the app, then I want to exfiltrate my data in home assistant or similar, getting better stats and so on” So they blocked the API with Google play integrity signatures Now, instead of spending money on engineering ways to block uncertified devices, they could have simply introduced an official API with rate limits and stuff. The fact that they noticed all those “unauthorized accesses” it’s prove that people just want to pay for a lightweight API access, not a 250mb app that takes 4 minutes to remotely start the air conditioning After all, we’re talking for €150/year for accessing the data of a €1 iot sim card using 0.0001€ of compute time. There should be enough margin for that.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-06-24 11:14
I said long time ago that EU really needs to focus on opening up the platforms. Force app makers to support de-googled phones. Force car makers to support de-googled phones. You can’t become technologically independent if you don’t control the platforms.
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@pimat@feddit.org 2026-06-23 08:00
How are all these governments and companies managing to enshitify everything? Yet, when it comes to real problems like world hunger, child poverty, and exploitation, no one even blinks an eye.