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How Smart Owners Are Pulling Trackers From Toyota, Ford, and GM (The Complete Removal Guide) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 days ago by honesthenery@thelemmy.club to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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A loyal GM customer bought a 2022 Corvette, then couldn't get a single insurance company to cover him. The reason wasn't his record. It was what his own car had been quietly reporting about him.

Your car is almost certainly doing the same thing right now. This is the model-by-model breakdown of the always-on tracker hiding in Toyota, Ford, and GM vehicles, where it lives on each one, and what owners are actually doing about it in their own driveways. One of these three brands you can shut up in five minutes. One of them you can't shut up at all.

Find your vehicle in the chapters below.

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[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

This vid is crap. Contradictory of itself and way too long.

Perfect use case for a vehicle specific infographic

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Guarantee you pull fuses and you'll get a subsystem problem. The Money light. The data antenna is in the roof shark fin, it can be unplugged. Or, you can cover the sharkfin with metal tape.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

That stops the thing from having a strong signal, but does it stop it from communicating at all? Even if it can't connect 99% of the time, that 1% could still be enough to exfiltrate your data.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Ground the tape to the chassis/body. Might have to remove the fin and remount it to get good contact without drilling a new hole. After that, RF signals are gonna be gone.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

RF won't get past foil tape. You can put it inside the fin to hide it.

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