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With Apple, you want to block *.apple.com and white-list subdomains as you need them. If instead you black-list apple subdomains, the battle will never end.
by thomassmith65 1y ago
With Apple, you want to block *.apple.com and white-list subdomains as you need them. If instead you black-list apple subdomains, the battle will never end.
- fortran77 1y agoWhy use Apple at all if it’s so user-hostile? (I’m a Windows user.)
- plutoh28 1y agoIf I recall correctly, Windows isn’t very user-friendly either.
- like_any_other 1y agoHumor.
- uncircle 1y agoIt cannot be humor as it doesn't have, at the end of the comment, the tag /s
- erikerikson 1y agoThank you for ending yours with /s
- greenavocado 1y agoWindows telemetry is way more insane Small sample of telemetry and spying domains (out of date): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocke... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/extra.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocke... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/update.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocke... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Strappazzon/teleme7ry/master/src/rules.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Strappazzon/teleme7ry/mast...
- zeeZ 1y agoThat "small sample of telemetry and spying domains" also contains login pages and update downloads, among others. You're just saying everything Microsoft is telemetry and spying, here are all their domains.
- st3fan 1y agoSame with all those Apple domains. This is the world we live in now. Operating systems and most applications are now backed by cloud services.
- potato-peeler 1y agoHow does one verify all those domains are not essential to the OS?
- ImJamal 1y agoMicrosoft explains what all (most?) of the domains are for https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-11-endpoints-non-enterprise-editions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-11...
- potato-peeler 1y agoThanks. I think some apps do need to connect to Microsoft to deliver services like update and antivirus. Some are used by the products itself to maintain reliability like maps and store. Others are diagnostics, which can still be manually turned off. Not sure why one would maintain a dedicated hosts file to block endpoints if they can simply configure this on app level itself.
- lipowitz 1y agoHow do you get all the bloatware off and de-metric your Windows? With Apple it is one criminal instead of an oligarchy of crime.
- MegaDeKay 1y agoInstalling LTSC takes you a long way towards that goal.
- bmacho 1y agoProbably in exchange of some privacy it gives its users time/money?
- cynicalsecurity 1y agoWhy use Apple or Windows at all if they are so user-hostile? (I’m a Linux user.)
- jitl 1y ago(Bluetooth) audio never works consistently for me on Linux, especially after wake from sleep I have like a 10% chance to get crackling/stuttering
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- onedognight 1y ago1) The ads in my start menu all come from one domain. 2) One is less than 63. 3) Profit?
- SimianSci 1y agoAnybody who has done similar checks for windows will see an order of magnitude more connections being made. As someone who got their start managing windows devices, and who has gone through the painful steps of mapping out what each such connection is meant for, I was suprised to see that there was ONLY 63 connections being made in an hour for this article. The last time I mapped such connections for a windows device, we had measured about 200+ similar connections within a single hour.
- MegaDeKay 1y agoTo be fair, "about 200+" is far from "an order of magnitude" of 63.
- exe34 1y agoTheir hardware is quite nice - I have a mac book air from mid-2012 myself. (Although I moved to Nixos linux in 2016).
- LorenDB 1y agoWhy use Windows at all since it's more user-hostile in terms of overt advertising and telemetry-gathering? (I'm a Linux user.) (slight /s here but I'm also serious)
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