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How bad is Android Auto for privacy on a stock Pixel phone. What can the car and car vendor get access to.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I was recently very interested to learn that, if I run a VPN on my phone, Auto immediately calls out the VPN as a problem and refuses to connect to my car until it's disconnected.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Is that android auto or wireless android auto?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For me, wireless. Wired still worked through VPN.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah same experience for me. I assumed it was an issue with the routing table, but manually updating it didn't seem to help. I assumed I was just not good enough at networking on android. I'd believe google would try to crap on that too though.

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