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cross-posted from: https://mbin.grits.dev/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/95555
Edit: Guys I didn’t write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I’ve now fixed tho
Edit: Also, the information about there being no escape is out of date – here’s a quick guide to how to fix the problem in the modern day
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It’s crazy for me how some people go to hell and back just to keep using a spying operating system, which could be replicated basically one to one with Linux. Excluding spying and tracking. It’s not like they want specifically iMessage, Facetime etc., as they even disable that.
I’m a Linux-only user of 3 years, been familiar with Linux for 5 years. No, you cannot replicate neither Windows nor Mac one to one with any Linux distro.
No, you can do better
You can recreate the core experience, minus the underlying systems and core apps - which is the bad thing about MacOS and Windows anyway.
it’s not clear from the lemmy.ml post and the edits, but the blog post describing the behavior is from november of 2020 and the description of how to mitigate/block it is from february of 2021.
five days after the blog post in november of 2020 apple made a statement about deleting their ip logs, encrypting the communications and giving the option to disable these processes. those three actions seem to address everything in the blog post directly related to the complaint.
i haven’t had time to check definitively and see for myself on my own hardware and network yet, but the comment from the cross-post that “apple doesn’t seem to have been using their old servers for this” (paraphrasing mine) seems to be accurate at first blush looking at the house’s traffic logs.