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None of that is relevant to my point. You seem to be trying to catch people in some kind of gotcha instead of engaging honestly with the problem at hand. But al
by latexr 2y ago
None of that is relevant to my point. You seem to be trying to catch people in some kind of gotcha instead of engaging honestly with the problem at hand. But alright, I’ll bite.
Yes, I always start with clean installs, both on iOS and on macOS. Sometimes I even restart fresh on the same device, as I make sure my hardware lasts. I don’t sync bookmarks, I keep them in Pinboard and none of them has any private or remotely identifiable information anyway. I don’t care about saving browser history either, in fact I have it set to periodically auto-clear, which is a feature in Safari.
- JustExAWS 2y agoNo I am trying to say with a connected device using online services, the service provider is going to have access to your data that you use to interact with them. To a first approximation, everyone in 2024 expects their data and settings to be transferred across devices. People aren’t working as if it is 2010 when you had to backup and restore devices via iTunes. If I’m out of town somewhere and my phone gets lost, damaged or stolen, I can buy another iPhone, log into my account and everything gets restored as it was. Just as I expect my watch progress to work when I use Netflix between my phone, iPad, Roku devices etc.
- latexr 2y agoAnd that should rightfully be your informed choice. Just like everyone else should have the right to know what data their devices are sending before it happens and be given the informed choice to refuse. People shouldn’t have to learn that from a random blog post shared on a random website.
- JustExAWS 2y agoIn what world is Netflix for instance not going to know your watch history? How many people are going to say in 2024 that they don’t want continuous cloud backup? You want Windows Vista style pop ups and permissions?
- latexr 2y agoHow many times are you going to shift the goalposts? This is getting tiresome, so I’ll make it my last reply. I don’t have Netflix but neither is that relevant to the point, you’re obviously and embarrassingly grasping at straws. No one is arguing against continuous cloud backups, they’re arguing about sending data without consent. Which, by the way, is something Apple used to understand not to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo Apple’s OS are already filled with Windows Vista style popups and permissions for inconsequential crap, people have been making fun of them for that for years.
- scarface_74 2y agoIf you are doing continuous cloud backups and using Apple services - you are already giving Apple your data and your solution is to add even more permissions? You are not going to both use any Apple service that requires an online component and keep Apple from having your data. Isn’t it bad enough that I have a popup every time I copy and paste between apps?
- doublerabbit 2y ago> Isn’t it bad enough that I have a popup every time I copy and paste between apps? For me, not really no. It reminds me I am copying information and not from some phishing app, I find it informative. And I'm probably one of the few who actually click "Reject" to the cookie pop ups having to click no on 3742 legitimate consents. The simple answer is everything should be opt-out. I'll opt-in if I require it because frankly, regardless to how Fort-Knox my data is $CORP still cannot be trusted.
- JustExAWS 2y agoIf that’s the case, you aren’t using email either or messaging?
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