Dyskolos

I partially agree. Though there is less and less we could do with each coming year :(

To me personally though, you either do care for privacy or you don’t. Why even bother doing it a lil? Boycotting WhatsApp but installing some Alexas at home? Would feel like defeat to me. Giving up.

Certainly am not. I predate both actually.

It surely just isn’t this one deamon. Despite “mediaanalysisd” sounds highly threatening to me. Especially if you aren’t allowed to disable it. How i would hate that on MY computer. Surely better than windows, where 5198231 services do that of which you can only disable 99%.

If you use ANY service in the apple cloud though, your data is, by definition, unsafe. If you don’t, you’re probably not the run-of-the-mill-apple-user that knows which service does what.

but if your threat model includes American software companies & oligarchs

Mine surely does. Especially US-american.

If I would be in there for upvotes, I would’ve said how great MacOS is, and how much i love the apple :-) But thanks, have one back to outweigh the maclovers.

I wouldn’t say it’s more private or transparent than android or winblows. But even if there’d be zero evidence, which walled garden is private? And especially transparent? Which Apple-service could you use totally 100% anonymous?

Sure, you CAN restrict mac better and kinda minimize data-harvesting. As long as you also not use all their oh-so-comfortable-services…But who does? The same that use a highly modified winblows that firewall the rest of harvesting off. What about Siri, spotlight, safari, analytics, malware updates, crash reports, and especially: icloud. Or the newer AI-crap?

And honestly, I’ve never heard a mac-user be concerned for privacy. They prefer simplicity and “it just works!”.

MacOS already is one big spyware, why would anyone care of another one 😁