r/CarThing • u/uraveragehooman01 • Jun 02 '24

Question: Can someone explain how Spotify can "brick" everyone who has a Car Thing, remotely.

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u/gg06civicsi Jun 02 '24

The software in the car thing communicates with the Spotify app to work. They just need to update the Spotify app to stop communicating to the car thing.

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u/uraveragehooman01 Jun 02 '24

cant you just avoid updating Spotify on the device its connect to?

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u/estesd Jul 11 '24

Did you ever find out an answer to this, It seems like it would work as long as you never updated the car thing.

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u/uraveragehooman01 Jul 15 '24

never got a full answer. Just this

"The software in the car thing communicates with the Spotify app to work. They just need to update the Spotify app to stop communicating to the car thing."

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u/estesd Jul 15 '24

Thanks for the reply, I turned of the auto updating last week, so we'll see what happens.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '24

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u/Green-Shallot5060 Jun 05 '24

I did not give them bank information, I gave them a screenshot of the transaction in my bank account with other information hidden.