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Few months ago when launching apps on Mac Os became sluggish because their telemetry service had high latency -- that was the moment I lost faith in all of Appl

Few months ago when launching apps on Mac Os became sluggish because their telemetry service had high latency -- that was the moment I lost faith in all of Apple's privacy claims. PS: Still use a MBP, iPhone and an Apple Watch. :(

e40 4y ago
That "telemetry" (which is misleading in the current context) was about checking for malware. I'm talking the specific case of launching apps on macOS.
- sitzkrieg 4y ago
  that is still very much the same thing
- Zagill 4y ago
  Part of the issue IIRC is that application names were exposed in the request, not encrypted in any way. So there are legitimate privacy/security concerns in publicly announcing every application that you open on your computer.
user3939382 4y ago
If you just put macOS on a proxy you can see the it basically never stops phoning home. Privacy my ass.
- jjtheblunt 4y ago
  On a laptop not on WiFi what happens?
gumby 4y ago
That telemetry could easily -- more easily in fact -- have been done in a privacy protecting way: have your machine ship with a signature database and then have it randomly and frequently download deltas. Then check the signature database locally. It would be faster too. Especially on the mac we're not talking about an enormous database. Rather disappointed that Apple didn't take this route. They do do something similar with their virus database (XProtect).
Spooky23 4y ago
They didn’t say what happens on MacOS stays on MacOS. That type of capability is core to most general purpose OS’s today. Any significant company is running EDR, etc that’s even more intrusive