I can’t answer for OP here, but the explanation I often see on Lemmy is “poisoning/messing with the AI web crawlers”

rambling and not even accurate

Ah yes, that makes sense; thank you.

poorly structured,

yes, that’s bad

requires too many attempts to get a mildly useful block.

yes, that’s bad

more verbose,

How is that bad? I can’t count how many times I’ve revisited my work a year or more later, and wondered what I was thinking, having taken 2 minutes to parse something dense that I wrote, and then thought “why didn’t I make this a little clearer at the time?”

people are justified to complain

I have to disagree. Not when they didn’t pay any taxes or tolls to build or maintain the bridge, and the bridge has signs at the entrances which state that it is still a completely volunteer-maintained project. Doesn’t matter how good the bridge is, or how many people have deemed themselves deserving of only good results, or that they don’t bother to read the signs. There is no level at which “ok, now they are entitled to trouble-free outcomes”.

Well sure, my Leaf has that also. But that assumes a level of trust that it actually fully disables everything and doesn’t have “exceptions”, and that it won’t get re-enabled during service or battery changeout or something else like that.

It took me all of about 20 minutes to remove the SIM chip from my 2015 Leaf, following a youtube video that showed everything step by step.

AFAIK, all cars before 2021 still have physical SIM chips, so easy to remove and disable the telematics.

Isn’t profitable? Insurance companies are definitely making profits because of their tactics of doing that to their customers,

customize your favorite apps

can you elaborate?

No, I wasn’t even thinking about remote bricking when I did it.

All of the car makers are making big money by selling your telematics data, so insurance companies can charge you more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

and then there is this:

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-buying-americans-location-data-under-scrutiny-11627381

Unfortunately, the Leaf doesn’t really know the SIM is removed, so it still asks me every month. But fortunately, now it doesn’t matter what I answer 🙂

I got under the dashboard and removed the SIM from my Leaf. Took a screwdriver and 15 minutes, but Youtube showed me the entire process.

Not Twilight itself, but 50 Shades of Gray started as a Twilight fan fiction