I think most people would have been fine with like a ublock style collection blocklists they could enable or disable and subscribe to, the problem was hiding it and doing it unilaterally.
Putting in a DDOS tool is just another signal this person isn’t mature enough to be trusted with your computer.
The ID.Buzz is in my opinion the posterchild for "we have to make EV look different" era of design.
The Buzz and the early BMW i3 that stand out to me as ugliest cars of the decade. Cybertruck currently holds the throne, with the Ferrari Luce biting at it's heals (for looking like Ferrari hired Homer Simpson)
For decades though they didn’t bother to invest when they could have. For a decade since Tesla proved there was a viable a market they didn’t do much more than token effort (ugly plastic Evs, not innovating in the tech at all)
As much as I hate Elon Musk at least he did get the EV industry legitimized.
I don't know how all the western car manufacturers dropped the ball so hard on EVs.
Yes, the batteries were always expensive, but VW frankly didn't see to even try to innovate on EVs, so I think this is largely self-inflicted pain by management reluctant to try anything new.
At least in that case they could be stupid enough to think ChatGPT magically knows everything (lord knows a lot of people seem to think that) and be genuinely trying to help. I can kind of forgive being incredibly stupid and not realizing it if your intentions are good.
Posting fake bird photos requires making or pretending you made them. Either case is shitty.
I’m just happy “what’s the best Trek” is as debatable as “what’s the worst Trek”
Not every franchise has that.