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Until Apple enables a user to deny all Internet access to an app then they haven't really committed to data control.
by dingaling 8y ago
Until Apple enables a user to deny all Internet access to an app then they haven't really committed to data control.
- danieldk 8y agoThis is a strange benchmark. Along those standards, Linux or BSD also haven't committed to data control. Like Linux or BSD, you can set up the packet filter to do so. Like Linux or BSD there are no user-friendly, out-of-the-box ways to do it. On macOS it is at least easy to do using third-party applications (e.g. Little Snitch or TripMode).
- glennpratt 8y agounshare -n
- danieldk 8y agoThank you for illustrating my point ;).
- glennpratt 8y agoIt was mostly a joke, but at the same time this is what makes Docker, et al possible. A firewall alone is not much of a sandbox.
- pdimitar 8y ago> Along those standards, Linux or BSD also haven't committed to data control. Well yes, they haven't. Not in a convenient way anyway. I've had a sysadmin friend explaining me the lenghts you have to go to to achieve such results. To him it was easy. I just said "feck that". The fact that every single app isn't sandboxed is also pretty disappointing.
- saagarjha 8y agoI think this is a thing in China, where you can turn off all data access to apps?
- pdimitar 8y agoNot sure why you're downvoted. I'd jump with joy if the next iOS / Win10 / Linux / BSD / Android version allows you to completely stop an app from using a network connection, Wi-Fi or otherwise. Disallowing 3G/4G to apps is not enough. But of course nobody is gonna do it since ads are served in hundreds of thousands of Bejeweled clones and Apple/Google wouldn't want displeased app developers letting that ad revenue dry up. :(