Newsflash: Not everyone is a teenager on lemmy, many of us have spouses and children.
So convience over privacy, got it. That is pretty much what made Facebook rise to fame.
Did you even bother to read the article?
Luckily, the creators of the NERV App, Gehirn Inc, have created an app-based alternative for users to get information in real-time, as well as running a Mastodon account
The question is, what alternative are we going to have, if all auto makers start doing this?
Do we, as an industry, have such short attention span, that we forgot how Microsoft abused their monopoly in the 1990s to force everyone to use Internet Explorer? Now that Google is doing the exact same thing, nobody seems to mind.
Next you're going to say https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/red_hat_linux exists for fearmongering.
I started dating at age 30, met my wife when I was 35 and we're still married now 8 years later. My father-in-law met his girlfriend when he was 50 and they're still together now 15 years later.
It's called the free market where your can purchase and sell goods as you wish, within the applicable laws.
You don't own a phone?
On all the agile projects I've worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can't know the requirements up-front, because we're agile.