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“Privacy. That’s iPhone.” — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk
Apple isn’t lying about privacy. They’re just very careful about what they don’t say out loud. The Google deal. iCloud’s 5GB trap. The Meta silence. What “we keep your data safe” actually means.
None of it required a lie. That’s kind of the whole point.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-thats-iphone-and-other-things-that-need-an-asterisk

#apple #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog #icloud #security

"Privacy. That's iPhone." — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes

Part 1 of 2. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let me be upfront about something before we start. I've been using iPhones since the 4S. I'm...

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Linux Is Best 1d ago

@ppb1701

Connect any iPhone to something that monitors traffic — for example, a DNS service such as AdGuard DNS or Control D. You will notice that your iPhone makes more outbound connections than Microsoft Windows 11.

Anytime an Apple user tells me that Apple is better for privacy, I can’t help but roll my eyes and think about how they’ve been tricked into believing that.

#iPhone #Apple #iOS #macOS

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Patrick 1d ago

@Linux oh yeah it crazily talks to their servers a lot. Like Microsoft you also can’t blanket block it if you want your system to work. That said I see more “filtered “ Microsoft ones in my AdGuard than Apple. Whether that’s better intertwining by them or just more things turned off for my phone I don’t know. But it is a valid question if it so privacy oriented…why so many calls home?

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Patrick

@Linux this is a small slice of traffic filtered to my phone before I woke up. Just as an example of what we are referring too. It is doing this over and over and over.