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transcriptase 1 hours ago [-]
Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. And how many onedrive exes randomly fire off throughout the day despite having never once used it. And how onedrive changes its version number every day when it realizes it can’t connect.
bigyabai 1 minutes ago [-]
Pack-in slopware and it's consequences have been a disaster for the desktop operating system duopoly.
dylan604 15 minutes ago [-]
OneDrive is the most annoying of all the apps I never use that was installed alongside an app that I do use. Thankfully, I have now blocked it from notifying me that it can no longer connect to the mother ship.
The article calls out Safari but my understanding is it applies to email also.
lapcat 5 minutes ago [-]
No, I don't use Private Relay or subscribe to iCloud+
kridsdale1 18 minutes ago [-]
One Apple Mail feature nobody here has commented on was called Piano Mover internally. I don’t know the public marketing name. It lets attachments over 10MB in emails be replaced with iCloud hosted file references.
Onavo 2 minutes ago [-]
I think every major email hosting provider (that's not a dumb IMAP only platform) has some variant of this.
speak_plainly 53 minutes ago [-]
Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.
artisinal 21 minutes ago [-]
Most likely answer so far. While writing an email you can take it over between iPhone, iPad and Mac. Once you hit send it probably gives a “you can stop Handoff now” signal.
lapcat 4 minutes ago [-]
I've disabled Handoff.
Also, why would Handoff be triggered by sending an email rather than composing an email? Mail app uses IMAP for syncing mailboxes.
I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
SoftTalker 1 hours ago [-]
Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.
zikduruqe 21 minutes ago [-]
For a company who hangs their hat on privacy, it is a dang shame that their native mail client can't support PGP/GnuPG. I mean it'll do S/MIME, but who uses that regularly.
bantunes 1 hours ago [-]
I don't think they read all of it. Probably just metadata. But would be good to know what's being sent.
tjoff 51 minutes ago [-]
"Not that any other provider is better"
Is that your pretend justification for buying apple?
Barbing 29 minutes ago [-]
Figure they do it for three-letter agencies who’re not in my threat model, otherwise I’d have to spend much time busying with… Whonix? Tails? Qubes?
And lose/reimplement my Universal Clipboard and AirDrop and iMessage… (so yeah I deserve consequences of my love of convenience)
The article calls out Safari but my understanding is it applies to email also.
Also, why would Handoff be triggered by sending an email rather than composing an email? Mail app uses IMAP for syncing mailboxes.
Is that your pretend justification for buying apple?
And lose/reimplement my Universal Clipboard and AirDrop and iMessage… (so yeah I deserve consequences of my love of convenience)
Though the more Apple fails to choose the good soap the more I should worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074631
Universal Clipboard, AirDrop and iMessage - is that really the value add of apple? iMessage... do we really want to encourage that behavior?
Er, yes ?
iMessage is awesome.
I don't.