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> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. FWIW, Mozilla do
by mconley 11y ago
> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it.
FWIW, Mozilla does the same thing for Firefox Accounts sync data - it's an opaque blob that we couldn't decrypt even if we wanted to.
(Disclosure: Mozilla employee)
- Sakiina_ 11y agoThis is good to know. Might tempt me back to Firefox from Chrome.
- autoreleasepool 11y agoI switched to chromium with homebrew via brew cask install chromium last night. AFAICT, it's exactly the same as chrome minus the proprietary code. I literally haven't noticed a single difference other than the nicer icon.
- timothya 11y agoFor the record, Chrome's sync data can also be an encrypted blob that Google can't decrypt[0]. [0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en