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Unfortunately, OpenHaystack is not as open as I'd hoped. > All you need is a Mac and [...]
by neilv 3y ago
Unfortunately, OpenHaystack is not as open as I'd hoped.
> All you need is a Mac and [...]
- sodality2 3y agoThat’s because Apple themselves limit access to authenticated (but supposedly anonymous - aka doesn’t matter whose) Apple IDs before allowing access to the geodatabase
- jimbobthrowawy 3y agoNot for long, since cross compatibility with android is apparently coming. IIRC, they need you running macos to get the data via a plugin for apple mail. If you only needed an appleID, it could likely be done in a web browser.
- lolinder 3y agoThe cross compatibility is only for anti-stalking features, and is probably implemented in such a way that you couldn't use it to implement a tracker that works in both systems.
- jimbobthrowawy 3y agoYou're right. I think I misremembered a news article I read about a week or so ago, that I can no longer find.
- mschuster91 3y agoWhat I don't get is why nobody seems to have done the work to reverse engineer the onboarding workflow, and why Apple doesn't allow onboarding on Mac devices. I had to buy a (used) iPhone just to onboard AirTags, despite onboarding Mac devices works without one.