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  • Edward Snowden calls Apple CSAM plans 'disaster-in-the-making'

    darkvaderdarkvader
    fastasleep said:
    cpsro said:
    iOS 15 Mail has a feature to obscure your IP address when loading remote images… and Apple offers to load them automatically with the obscured IP. How many people will have no idea what this is really about and choose to load images automatically? While the IP is obscured, the mere act of loading images confirms your email address is valid, that the messages are read, and indicates when they are read. So much for privacy.
    How is this related to this article in any way? "So much for privacy", like it's Apple's fault. They remove tracking pixels and will be doing a few other things to obfuscate data for senders, but yes you are correct that loading remote content attached to your user ID reveals you opened it. This is an improvement over what's currently offered, and there's no magic solution here. What is your solution?

    Don't open remote images in mail.  The solution couldn't be more obvious or simple, and it should be the default.

    And yes, that's completely different from Apple's spyware that scans your data on your phone.
    davOfer

  • iPhone users drawn to iPad but not Mac or Apple's home devices, study finds

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Maybe if Apple didn't actively try to make Mac OS worse with every release... oh, and maybe if Apple didn't decide to turn from being the privacy company into being the spyware company....

    The spyware is more recent, of course.  But Apple's continuous quest to break backward compatibility and destroy functioning workflows has had a major impact on their ability to sell the Macintosh.  Want to play a game you used to love?  Not on the Mac.  Want to use a bit of brilliant inter-office communication software like SnapMail that hasn't been updated in a few years?  You're screwed.  Meanwhile the other two major desktop OS platforms maintain backward compatibility for decades.
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  • Apple's iCloud Private Relay to launch as public beta feature

    darkvaderdarkvader
    As if Apple has any room to talk about anything at all relating to privacy any more.
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  • Apple sees rise in departures from Health, iCloud teams

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Maybe they're tired of working for a company that claims to protect user privacy but instead wants to install spyware on users' devices.
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  • Apple-backed Matter smart home standard delayed until 2022

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Relevant XKCD:  https://xkcd.com/927/



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