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No wonder, at work we noticed all of our Macs collected ad personalization data by default. Even when installing from fresh, there was never a prompt asking whether one consents to ad personalization data being collected or not, it was just enabled by default in system settings

Also we are within the EU, IANAL but to me this seems like an obvious violation of GDPR.

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I’m curious, is there a URL block list for Apple analytics? Or would blocking telemetry interfere with receiving updates and using services.

There are quite a few advertising and tracking domains you can safely block without any negative impacts to Apple devices. Parsing my logs at NextDNS (nextdns.io), the domains below are the most commonly blocked. It looks like most of the popular blocklists, including the default NextDNS blocklist, already include these domains.

*.iadsdk.apple.com

api-adservices.apple.com

news.iadsdk.apple.com

stocks-analytics-events.apple.com

weather-analytics-events.apple.com

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