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by dkonofalski 4y ago
>the mere existence of a massive store of all this data presents a very real risk to users You're assuming this massive store exists with no evidence for it. One of Apple's central tenets with regard to privacy is that all the
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
That's good to hear but it doesn't undo the reputational damage from the past. Even if Meta says they're privacy-conscious, I already don't trust them because they were willing to exploit it for gain and recently at that
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Google is currently in a lawsuit brought by several states in the US for tracking users without their consent because they continued to track users after people explicitly denied/disabled that tracking. While I did say "leak&quo
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
That's not accurate. Facebook sold the data to Cambridge Analytica. You're right that users gave consent for their data to be used but the data bundle sold to Cambridge Analytica included data that was not collected in the surveys
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
This is not true at all. It matters from both a principle standpoint and also a data availability standpoint. If I tell you that I won't sell your location info to people starting today but I was selling it in the past, how difficult
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Do you have any evidence of this? Setting up an iPhone or iPad asks the user to opt-in to Apple's tracking. The only reason it would be opt-out is if you opted in previously and a software update has revised the permissions/tracki
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Considering that you can remove the App Store app from your home screen, I don't think it would classified as an OS-level service.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I've responded elsewhere but the big difference is that Apple has always operated this way while FB and Google have changed their positions. Since they have had prior data breaches, it's not difficult for a malicious actor to use
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
They do now but only because they leaked a bunch of individual user data models in the past. Apple has always operated this way so there's nothing for someone to tie together. Facebook's position is basically useless when some
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Now . This is a policy change that was a direct result of the Cambridge Analytica leak. Cambridge explicitly used the cross-site and cross-app tracking to build the models that they sold to people/companies/governments.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
That wasn't my point. The OP suggested that Apple was being deceitful about its position that this posture is "for users". To me, the fact that a user can potentially (and accidentally) lock themselves out of their own data w
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
1. It seems to me that they do care about user privacy. I haven't seen any evidence yet to suggest that they don't. Tim Cook, of all people, has every reason for this to be a priority and a truthful statement. 2. The privacy track
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
No, I'm saying that Apple is promising advertisers aggregated data about their ad performance and people reached without ever handing over individualized data. Apple, like they do with all of their third-party services, is acting as th
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I don't think I agree with your assessment of this for the following reasons: 1. Nothing here is being tracked "across other companies apps and websites", unless there's something here that shows Apple is cross-pollinati
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I'm confused about this entire thread and the lawsuit considering that, as far as I can see, Apple's privacy statement explicitly says "across apps or websites". There's nothing about the privacy policy that states
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Do you have evidence for these claims? I'm not sure I understand how any user data can be de-anonymized when all the user tracking is done on-device and never leaves said device.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Is there an example of this resulting in a security breach or unauthorized access to someone's iCloud data or iMessage history?
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
How is Apple lying that it's all about the user? Their support documents clearly outline what is E2E encrypted and their explicit justification for not locking iCloud backups is specifically because of situations where users are locked
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I think you're missing a key difference here, though: Apple is not selling that data to their advertisers. The key difference between Apple's privacy argument and others is that your data in the latter case is being sold to those
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
ITT: A bunch of people lamenting the shutdown of what.cd doing exactly the thing that got it shut down.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Absolutely. In fairness, though, Apple should also catch this and either prompt or offer some kind of solution to this for devs that may be unaware of this change. The author seems to have found just this so a little education or notificati
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
That doesn't mean it doesn't work. It just means that some people are going to overestimate their competence to make those changes. I would be happy if it could only be turned on via Terminal, for example.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly it. There's no market for manual transmissions except for a very small minority of users.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
Totally agree on this one but have conceded that we're in the minority of people that need to completely turn off their WiFi and Bluetooth radios. That's still one reason I jailbreak my device and something that, although I would
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I think that you're viewing the past through rose-colored glasses a little. Steve Jobs' entire strategy was a headless system with everything in the cloud. It was the entire push for iTools (which then became .Mac, then MobileMe
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
The ideal situation, for me, would be some kind of progressive disclosure or a way to toggle "Advanced" versions of these panels and sections but I totally get why Apple wouldn't want to do that. It's double the work for
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
This used to be true but is not true anymore.
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I might agree with the summary if there was any examples given of what they're referring to. If there was even a small list of things that Apple broke every WWDC that anyone besides extreme power users cared about, the point might actu
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I think he's trying to say, albeit poorly in my estimation, that adding a USB keypad in the box defeats the purpose of having a portable machine? I'm only assuming that because they're suggesting that Stage Manager is impract
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by dkonofalski 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious why you're doing this. What advantages do you get from turning off these features, installing old apps, and storing everything locally? I sync via my own server but still leave the iCloud backups for Document

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