918
Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
249 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would I give a fucking shit? Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data. Honestly, I'd rather china have my data than a fucking capitalist company or America. At least china won't do anything to me, our government is more of a threat to the average American than china is.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Or.... live in a place or advocate for a place where spyware cars arent a necessity for simply existing.....

    When something is 100% required for life, someone WILL exploit it

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Hey, man, I'm right there with you. I'm not planning on buying a new car unless I'm 100% confident I can disable or remove all of its networking and spyware services. I'm just stating that it's stupid that the average American will buy a new car and then say this shit about these cars just because they're Chinese.

    Honestly a Chinese car spying on you probably has less negative impact on your life vs any other brand that does business with American companies, of course assuming you yourself are american and live in America.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data

    Fuck me, it has to be sad living in this paranoid state...

    I’d rather china have my data than a fucking capitalist company or America

    Ignorance at it's best. You'd rather support the state that is committing literal genocide than capitalism.

    Sure, capitalism is cancer and sucks, but I don't think it's worse than genocide, mate.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ignorance is bliss I guess? New cars are pretty much computers on wheels that collect data. This is not a secret or anything.

    I mean, fuck China and the genocide of the Uighur. It's terrible. But I'm pretty confident that capitalism killed a whole lot more people throughout history.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately they are all bad. Nissan and Renault did pretty badly on privacy (something about recording sexual activity?)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "though researchers identified Renault as the least problematic."

    Renault was found to be the least problematic and this was one point for me to buy a Renault. Did not consent to data collection as I bought it (used). I am not consenting in the cars systems and I dont use the cloud service. Installed OVMS and called it a day...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    New cars are pretty much computers on wheels that collect data

    There's a difference between what telemetry a German car gathers, and what a Chinese car gathers. And where is it sent.

    The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.

    I mean, fuck China and the genocide of the Uighur. It’s terrible. But I’m pretty confident that capitalism killed a whole lot more people throughout history

    Ah, I guess it's fine then. Since throughout history more people died because of capitalist policies, then we can support China with a clear conscience!

    I do 100% agree with this, though:

    Ignorance is bliss I guess?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.

    Just trust me bro, the EU respects you but the Chinese are out to get you. The same EU that still has a special trade agreement with the genocidal Zionists, and is their biggest trading partner. The same continent that colonized and enslaved much of the rest of the world for centuries.Those are the good guys that you should implicitly trust, no proof needed you paranoid dummy. The red Chinese, they're the scary ones. Fear them.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent