Bloatware in Aftermarket Auto Parts

Summary

A Civic owner bought a cheap aftermarket head unit from Amazon and used Claude to reverse-engineer it. The reported findings included pre-installed bloatware: a voice assistant built on WebView that reportedly used about a third of processing power even while idle, Baidu location services, a call recorder, a DAB radio client, and Adobe Acrobat.

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