I own a VW ID.4. For reasons I wanted to reverse engineer some of the API. After authenticating to the account tied to my car, the landing page (https://www.vw.com/en/owners.html) makes calls to a lot of analytics trackers. I'll just list what pi-hole defaults block:
analytics.tiktok.com
sp.analytics.yahoo.com
googletagmanger.com
universal.iperceptions.com
cdn4.userzoom.com
snap.licdn.com
secure-ds.serving-sys.com
bat.bing.com
ct.pinterest.com
adherent.com
And a few others. I would guess the phone app (which has access to the car location) has a similar list of trackers. I hope to get some time to MITM the app to be able to know for sure.
> I felt a loss when the On the Metal podcast series wrapped up.
Big same. I was so happy to find the Oxide and Friends podcast that I went through the entire backlog in the last couple months. It really helped solidify my thoughts on debug-ability as a first class property of a programming language/environment/system.
It's a great mix of tech history, personal accounts from industry, practical conversations about development and debugging and current industry happenings.
A few standout episodes:
Engineering Culture
Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives
The Rise and Fall of DEC
I would be interested to hear of a way to intercept internet traffic between the vehicle and the internet.