Oh ya for sure it has a sim.

If it were my daily driver I’d dig in, find the antenna and shunt it to ground so it could not communicate

My wife is already not fully onboard with my need for privacy from these companies so I won regarding not activating the car but not sure she’d let me start pulling panels to find and kill the antenna.

Let’s pretend this isn’t a sure thing and get out any vote assuming team red is going to come out in droves!

Ya a lot will have gps built in but as others have said, the map will be static (whatever version was put in when built). Unless you have it updated by connecting it or buying an updated USB or whatever is required for your car

So ya it’s likely yours has both a gps antenna and navigation built in.

We just bought a new car this year (Kia) and I completely confused the sales lady when I told her we were not going to use the “connect app” or activate connect on the car itself. She was like “lets get you setup in connect” and I was “no thanks”

We have a nice 🚫 symbol with a radio tree behind it, so I 100% know the car is still connected to the cell network but it is not registered/connected to us, and no app installed.

Sure, we lose some functionality (remote start, and access to in-car wifi) but all of that is paid subscriptions. Sure they first x months are ‘free’ but after you gotta pony up $ to continue.

Note: I’m under no illusion tracking is just not happening for us now… I just want to make it harder where I can.

I use pihole+unbound right now and hoping that is unaffected

Choose your DNS provider wisely

One thing I found is revolut is different than what I want I don’t want a new bank or bank like app just virtual ccs. And if course you have this from yesterday

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/another-week-another-data-breach-for-revolut-customers/5299092

My CC is EOL it’s extension to access/create virtual CC’s and I use that multiple times a week so I’ve been looking around and knew about privacy.com

And that’s quite the timing regarding them. I can still create and use virtual cards but it’s going to be a lot bigger pita which is why I was looking around.

Hope someone knows a good alternative!