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Spyware in macOS

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Aren't most of the links related to iCloud? The service people use to store and sync their files?

Next thing you know they'll be telling us Google is secretly storing our files when we use Drive.

> without asking permission.

> Apple admits the spying in a search facility, but there's a lot more snooping that Apple has not talked about.

> Various operations in the latest MacOS send reports to Apple servers.

>Spotlight search sends users' search terms to Apple.

Most of this is complaining about telemetry, which is a valid thing to be concerned about.

https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home

Every article is over 5 years old, and some of them imply the problem is with MacOS, then link to issues with iPhones. Come back with real data.

I accept being downvoted to death for saying this, but everytime I see gnu.org (or anything RMS related) I can't help but roll my eyes and start with a huge dose of prejudice about what I'm about to read

News Guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They should add something about quoting the guidelines to this, because it's infinitely more annoying

I wasn't commenting voting, I mentioned voting.

Don't forget the ever present hatred seemingly everyone who doesn't own Apple products or has any desire to own Apple products has for Apple and every product they make.

Paranoid scaremongering.

The purpose of which is?

To drive users to use GNU tools and systems.

I almost believe that, except the part where an intelligent person believes they can convince a number of macOS users to switch to GNU. Surely empirically they've realized this kind of FUD doesn't work if you're not powerful like Microsoft?

If only Hurd were usable.

Not easy to take it seriously when they say things like "iThing" and "Big Brother".

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