This latest problem wasn’t with playing videos on FT, it was with finding and fetching the feed/list of videos for your subscribed channels. IOW if you directly pasted in the url for a video it would play just fine, you just couldn’t fetch the list of available videos directly from FT.

My car is a 2012. It doesn’t have any of the stuff you mentioned, though I wouldn’t mind having a backup camera. I’m also fine with any safety features required by law since those aren’t surveillance–it’s the privacy-invasive stuff that will keep me driving this car until it’s no longer repairable. I put very few miles on it per year now that I’m retired, so it should last a long time.

I’m still interested to see if any replies here have alternatives for bypassing all the surveillance stuff. I saw an article on how to disable/remove the phone-home modem in a particular brand of car, and it was very complicated. You had to disassemble and remove a whole bunch of stuff just to get to it.

I know who this guy voted for.

Oh thanks, I guess I should have read the title a little more closely!

OK dumb question but I don’t have a smartphone, so: You’re browsing the web on your phone and this pops up. It says “Use your phone’s camera app to scan this QR code”. So obviously a phone’s camera can’t scan its own screen. And if you switch to the camera app the QR code is no longer on the screen anyway. So how does your phone’s camera app read the QR code? Does it have a button to click and give you 5 seconds to go to the screen that’s showing the code or what?

So those humans will go buy the cheapest they can find

Hell no I won’t.

Same! Except mine does do SMS text and has the other flip phone stuff like alarms, timer, calendar.

How does that even work?