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Re:Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual... by ren_engineer on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:41AM (#33721445)
pre 2008 models are your best option, a bunch of privacy violating electronics have been mandated in the US since then. Many of them have confirmed backdoors

if it wasn't for these regulations I think there would be a huge market for "dumb" cars that just have the essentials without a bunch of added stuff. Same goes for TVs, I' love to buy a dumb flat screen TV

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Re:Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual... by bitL on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:45AM (#33721518)
Nobody is forcing you to plug a smart TV into Internet and no smart TV has the capability to talk to 5G free/marketing channels yet.
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Re:Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual... by zapdrive on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:16PM (#33722640)
Some TVs are known to look for open WiFi networks in order to connect to the internet and send data back home.
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Re:Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual... by rosnd on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:22PM (#33723435)
Which ones? The vague "Some TVs" screams FUD.

Past conversations about this on HN suggest that this is almost certainly a complete fabrication, not something that has actually been documented.

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