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How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
by mbilal 5y ago
How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
- 14 5y agoI am going to give them a chance to reverse this but I literally just bought an upgrade to my iCloud. I thought it would make my life easier not having to worry about storage so much. Now I am just waiting for this reversal to happen or think I will have to cancel my iCloud subscription to start.
- foxpurple 5y agoWhat cloud service are you putting your images on? I would be shocked if google photos hasn’t already been doing this.
- sschueller 5y agoCloud services doing this isn't the problem and they are already doing it. The problem is your device doing this. Imagine if your Tesla reported back to Tesla who was in your car and sent that to the authorities if they thought someone in your car was "illegal".
- pmlnr 5y agoYou honestly can't know if it does that already or not.
- EtienneK 5y agoComing in the not-so-far-future.
- polishdude20 5y agoActually Tesla's do client side machine learning. When tesla needs training data of a bike for example, they can remotely "query" all the cars on the road and have the cars do client side detection of the stored footage and driving data and send over only the data that contains bikes.
- feanaro 5y agoWhy do you need to put your images on a cloud service at all? Just use a spare disk.
- pmlnr 5y agoYou don't need the cloud: syncthing can sync your phone and your computer together without any issues. No nasty cloud provider involved: https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
- Haemm0r 5y agoYou can even sync to $nasty_cloud_provider and don't provide the syncthing password. Problem solved!
- pmlnr 5y agoWhat? Syncthing is not a backup program, it, as the name suggests, syncs folders and files. There is no password involved.
- Haemm0r 5y agoCheck out: https://docs.syncthing.net/branch/untrusted/html/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/branch/untrusted/html/users/untru...
- ronyclau 5y agoSyncthing now supports untrusted device sync[0] (i.e. storing an encrypted copy on an untrusted device) in a recent version, though this is still on beta. [0]: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html
- polack 5y agoLooks like Syncthing doesn’t have support/client for iOS though?
- fouc 5y agoThere may be 3rd party apps like https://www.mobiussync.com https://www.mobiussync.com
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- summm 5y agoCloud is other people's computers. So, get your own server, or use someone's you trust. or use e2e encryption.
- seanp2k2 5y agoThat would be great if I could run an iCloud back-end on my home servers. Unfortunately, I can’t, and no software other than iCloud can do what iCloud does on iOS due to Apple’s usage of private iOS APIs to accomplish things like persistent background sync or syncing parts of the OS which would be required to do a full device restore that aren’t accessible to user space apps.
- UweSchmidt 5y agoBoycotting products to change a company's mind won't work because: - not enough people even know about this issue, understand the consequences or remember to act on it the next time a new phone is due - not enough alternatives on the market, and we're probably already boycotting them for other reasons - even with lower sales a company might not see the cause-and-effect There is a general trend in the industry to take all kinds of liberties with user data. There is pressure on companies to do something about bad things happening in their clouds. Machine learning folks want to apply their tools to big data and the corpus of everyone's photos is probably nice to work with. So we would have to tackle these issues on a larger scale.
- nicce 5y agoThat it is. I'm bit fancied of the ignorance of the people, until it is Apple who is doing it. And Apple is minority compared to other platforms. I haven't heard much of complains about Windows sending all your file hashes and most of the files into their servers, what they have been doing a very long time with Windows Defender. It is literally the same what Apple is doing now, but without restrictions. Google and other cloud service providers have scanned your photos for very long time, by using PhotoDNA. On top of images, Google scans also your emails. People forget and move on.
- babesh 5y agoI don’t use Windows Defender nor Google Photos nor other cloud service providers to scan my photos. I barely use gmail. I knew that Google was terrible so I have already minimized my use of Google services. Same with Facebook. But Apple!? I guess the dominos have finally gotten to me.
- nicce 5y agoIt is not so straightforward to not use Windows Defender if you are using Windows 10. You must edit group policies in quite deep to disable automatic scanning and startup. Google Drive includes backups of your phone, so it is not limited to Google Photos. Literally everything that is stored unencrypted on Google servers.
- oakpond 5y agoThere is hardly any mention of a boycott. Cynicism prevails; Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.