Jono EllisNissan have decided that vehicles older than 6 years old aren't worth their effort to maintain the remote services. 6 years. 🤢 And no route to open-source the service or pass on support to a third party. You aren't buying a car from Nissan, you're leasing it until they remove enough features that it becomes ewaste. https://hackaday.com/2026/04/08/nissan-shuts-down-nissanconnect-app-for-older-leaf-evs/ #enshittification #RightToRepair
And now Amazon are bricking 2 million working Kindles. I was stung when they stopped updating their first Android tablet so it doesn't come as a surprise. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98k91yy4z4o
Rachel Rawlings@jonoellis Connected vehicles are already privacy sinkholes, now being revealed as a rent-seeking scam.
Kevin Karhan@jonoellis shit like.this needs.to be outlawed and #Nissan should be made liable for the cost of replacing the vehicles they #sabotage|d that way with one from a different manufacturer!
FlanFlinger@jonoellis The car still functions as a car, you just lose remote access which can be replaced using open source hardware
https://www.openvehicles.com/buy
How does it become "e-waste"?
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKVW did this with their VW Connect (or whatever its called) for older (petrol / diesel) vehicles such as my 2018 Golf GTI, because they'd made it dependent on 2/3G mobile internet rather than LTE.
Some things like traffic alerts and fuel prices disappear from navi screen because of this, but In this case its not a great issue as you can get better navi via Android Auto, and the other VW features weren't that much use and only helped feed VW HQ with data their main dealers could use for marketing purposes (and I either use indie garages or do my own servicing where possible)
Climate Jenny 2.1@jonoellis Does this mean they aren’t going to be subject to surveillance any more? Might be a selling point for an older Leaf, if true.
stepplSounds like a wise decision I picked a Dacia years ago, where you get the feature you pay for. No online shit.
Bernie Luckily Does It@jonoellis @pathfinder This needs to be illegal.
Scott Francis@jonoellis @gooba42 six years ... when many new car loans have a term of 84 months now. planned obsolescence. ಠ_à²