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!