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If you want maximum security then just obviously don't use Apple services, or any other provider that has a capability to fetch your data under any circumstance
by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
If you want maximum security then just obviously don't use Apple services, or any other provider that has a capability to fetch your data under any circumstances.
- smoldesu 4y ago> then just obviously don't use Apple services How is this possible on iPhone/iPads, where using Apple services like the App Store is required to install software?
- supertrope 4y agoDon't buy an iPhone.
- smoldesu 4y agoOr just wait long enough for the EU's digital markets act to take effect. But my point stands.
- scarface74 4y agoI can’t wait for the mandated pop ups “did you know you could install a third party App Store” every time you go to the Apple App Store.
- jdiez17 4y agoWhat makes you think there will be such "mandated popups"?
- scarface74 4y agoHave you heard of the GDPR and seen how it’s made the web browsing experience worse?
- jdiez17 4y agoYes, I have heard of the GDPR and in my opinion it has improved/consolidated my digital privacy rights and not affected the "web browsing experience" in any negative way. I believe you are referring to the ePrivacy Directive (aka cookie law). As you may know, it's only mandatory to inform the user when the website is collecting information from the user beyond what is necessary for technical purposes - and in that case I do want the option to refuse that.
- supertrope 4y agoEU browser ballot. Cookie consent nags.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoObviously, it is not possible on Apple devices. Probably something like Pinephone [0] might help. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone
- smoldesu 4y agoHow does the PinePhone help me download apps on my iPhone?
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoIt won't help to download apps on an iPhone, which, I must say, isn't even yours: you don't get to decide which apps you can install on your phone. Apple gets to decide. Factually speaking you're merely renting the iPhonefrom Apple, which, being the device owner, decides the terms under which you can use it.
- schrodinger 4y agoIn practice this distinction is meaningless. In fact I trust Apple more than my own government. To take your argument to an absurd logical conclusion, I don’t own ANYTHING because my government can take it.
- jdiez17 4y agoStarting in May next year, the Digital Markets Act [1] requires Apple to "allow the installation of third-party software applications [...] by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper." [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.265.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A265%3ATOC https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...
- smoldesu 4y agoVery excited for this, but also disappointed that it took the entire European Union to bring Apple to heel.
- rched 4y agoI'm still on the fence about whether this will end up being a net good or not but people don't seem to consider the potential knock on effects of this. Apple puts some nice pro-consumer, along with some less nice anti-developer, requirements on Apps in the AppStore. Easy subscription management, privacy disclosure, parental controls etc. If the developers of an app decide to only make it available outside the AppStore you as a consumer may be forced to choose between using that app and getting those benefits.
- pixl97 4y ago> If the developers of an app decide to only make it available outside the AppStore you as a consumer may be forced to choose between using that app and getting those benefits. And Apple already chooses the reverse for you by not allowing apps you may want and by charging at 30% tax for doing so. There is a vast disparity between the behaviors!
- judge2020 4y agoMaybe buy a product that better suits you. If you buy a barbie doll, don't expect to be able to transform it into an 18 wheeler big rig.