I’m generally quite content with the level of privacy Apple offers when compared to its competitors. There’s always going to be a sacrifice for some level of convenience.
But one thing that fucks me off, to the extent that it makes me close to going full GraffeenOhEs, is how certain settings seem to just re-enable themselves after OS updates. Or sporadically after logging into iCloud via a computer browser or something.
The most random, unrelated event will (for example) re-enable my disabled Game Center iCloud preferences. Or my Siri and Safari cloud history.
I want all that local, not in the cloud, but Apple just flicks these on sporadically and hopes that I don’t check my iCloud settings every now and then.
Because spelling it properly summons the creator, who's a highly confrontational autistic schizo with zero social awareness. Which is an excellent combination for creating a private operating system, but not so great for having a conversation with
Fine, I’ll spell it out for you: the guy who made this OS is an autistic genius. He can likely custom build a crawler pretty easily that will see any mentions across any of the major forums and platforms of the creation he made.
Even if he didn’t make a custom crawler, there are many other companies that will perform this service. Go google “Brandwatch” or “Hootsuite”. Monitoring for product mentions is not a novel concept and is what many forward-leaning brands do to see what kind of things consumers are saying about their products.
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u/Travel-Barry 7d ago
I’m generally quite content with the level of privacy Apple offers when compared to its competitors. There’s always going to be a sacrifice for some level of convenience.
But one thing that fucks me off, to the extent that it makes me close to going full GraffeenOhEs, is how certain settings seem to just re-enable themselves after OS updates. Or sporadically after logging into iCloud via a computer browser or something.
The most random, unrelated event will (for example) re-enable my disabled Game Center iCloud preferences. Or my Siri and Safari cloud history.
I want all that local, not in the cloud, but Apple just flicks these on sporadically and hopes that I don’t check my iCloud settings every now and then.