VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electric Vehicles

Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by merb on Friday December 27, 2024 @04:06PM (#42526035)

VW do use opt-in. In fact it is so annoying that you get asked every time when you start your car. So basically every time your car start it says „do you want to use the profile connected with the vw service“ if you do not accept it than the car will be in a dumb mode. One of my coworkers was annoyed by it and „reset“ the car to use a non connected profile which does not do that.

I’m a owner of a id.4 (or rather a user of it, since my company owns it)

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by switch007 on Friday December 27, 2024 @04:20PM (#42526143)

Reminds me of cookie banners. Annoy you into submission

(I know the EU doesn't mandate annoying cookie banners but unintended consequences etc)

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by merb on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:05AM (#42530170)

actually in that case its more the other way around. its easier to drive with a profile that is not connected, you only loose the app functions like heating and knowing how much you still can drive and other things that are not 100% needed. with a not connected profile the car starts and you dont need to press an additional button to access your media stuff. so far only vw does that in the german market. everbody else uses agb's/eulas and stuff to tell you about the connection. vw is just bad when it comes to software.

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