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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you use a cell phone? Have a grocery store shopper card? Amazon? Google? Use literally any e-commerce website?

Regardless of what kind of car you drive, your data is already out there. Don't kid yourself that you car purchase will keep your data from the companies that want it. [/quote]

It’s not just the tracking. I already limit the size of my digital footprint. DCUM is one of five sites I visit. I HATE having a smart phone and particularly texti. Texting makes me anxious because it reminds me of work. I don’t bank online. I have one credit card that I’ve got in colleges in the Jurassic period.

I don’t want all the electronics and the additional points of failure that come with that. I don’t even see the need for a car nav system these days as I could use Google maps if I really had too. I don’t want to have to update my car like i do my laptop. I need a distracting computer screen with a multitude of options to run the heating or cooling in my car, I just need a lever I can that moves left and right. All the electronics make the car more expensive. I put less than 6k miles a year on my car now. Most of those miles are from road trips 2x a year to visit out of state parents.

My background is in IT and operations engineering FWIW. [/quote]

Sorry for the typos … while I’m griping, i hate the latest spellcheck as it introduces more spelling errors. So many times now it changes a word I typed one or two words back AND it changes correctly spelled words that I have to change back multiple times. I’m also finding it increasing difficult to read and edit on the phone too. [/quote]

Are you aware that you can shut spellcheck off?[/quote]

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