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BMW Drops Controversial Heated Seats Subscription, To Refocus On Software Services (www.forbes.com)

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BMW has made a U-turn on a controversial subscription service that saw drivers pay a fee to activate the heated seats fitted to their car.

How nice of them. But I'll bet my tyres that even worse subscriptions will come from all sides, and we won't need to wait long. These tiny wins against corporate nickle and diming only make sense, when we keep fighting them. More often than not, people get tired of complaining about the same thing over and over, until it just gets fully normalised.

In other words, don't buy cars with subscription seats, don't buy shitty subscriptions and try to not support companies that push that kind of shit.

Sorry for being a downer and not celebrating, but that's the point.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Sure they dropped them ... for now. Fully expect them to be quietly reenabled in a couple months

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