For a bit of balance, to be fair, Apple do clearly explain the reasoning behind the decision[1].
TL;DR It was a well reasoned privacy-focused decision, not "power-tripping" as the blog author puts it.
TL;DR It was a well reasoned privacy-focused decision, not "power-tripping" as the blog author puts it.
>The entitlement is needed only to be able to browse and advertise arbitrary or wildcard services. If you’ve added the one type you use to your Info.plist, as you detail, you do not need the entitlement.
i.e. the entitlement is only required if you are not willing or able to restrict your use of multicast to defined services.
Not with any sort of seriousness I think.
Some major internet peering exchanges used to have multicast LANs for whatever reason. I think LINX were one of the last ones to operate one, but eventually in 2020 they removed it after they reached a point where only two ports were connected to it with no significant traffic flowing !