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How To Opt Out Of Your Car’s Surveillance State (Before It’s Too Late) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Modern cars are spy hubs on wheels, tracking your location, conversations, and behavior.

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can maybe see a garage, but ruining your paint? Where do you get this paint, how much does it cost, do you “do it right” by properly prepping and masking, how do you maintain this finish, and do you truly not care about resale value?

I’m sure somebody has done this somewhere, but I can’t imagine it looks better than matte-black rattlecanned shitbox. Nobody really wants to be driving around in that.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You do realize that it's possible to get a professional quality after market paint job, right? I'm not confident in the effectiveness of such a paint, especially when it would be easier and more effective to just fuck with the antenna directly (and paint would affect anything in the car also if it does block signals effectively), but custom paint jobs can increase the resale value even without stopping the spying shit. And personally, I'd be willing to spend more on a car where that shit has been disabled, even if the paint job looked shitty.

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