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> I feel cars are much worse than browsers in terms of screwing their buyers

Feelings aside, why do you think this?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...

That plus:

- Impossible to repair without going to the vendor.

- subscription for seat warmers and "full accelerating curve" (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-su...)

- random feature disabling (https://www.wired.com/story/fight-right-repair-cars-turns-ug...)

Modern cars. Older cars don’t spy in you or need subscriptions to bypass arbitrary hardware restrictions. But newer cars are ‘safer’, so it’s kind of a crappy tradeoff

The difference with cars is it’s a lot easier to build yourself a vehicle. Used cars and parts and kits and how-tos are everywhere. It’s so much simpler than a web browser.

Worse, yes. Easier to topple? A browser doesn't require physical manufacturing and shipping.