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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Isn't this Private Relay masking your IP? https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
The article calls out Safari but my understanding is it applies to email also.
No, I don't use Private Relay or subscribe to iCloud+
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.
Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.
I've disabled Handoff.
Also, why would Handoff be triggered by sending an email rather than composing an email?
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.
Why’s this post below an older less popular one? https://i.ibb.co/jnpcFJz/IMG-0549.jpg
I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.
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.
I don't think they read all of it. Probably just metadata. But would be good to know what's being sent.
"Not that any other provider is better"
Is that your pretend justification for buying apple?
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)
Though the more Apple fails to choose the good soap the more I should worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074631
I don't think you have to look far nor hard for a mail-client that doesn't communicate with the developer because you send an email...
Universal Clipboard, AirDrop and iMessage - is that really the value add of apple? iMessage... do we really want to encourage that behavior?
> 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.
Everyone wearing their tinfoil hat while using Gmail and drive for everything
> while using Gmail and drive for everything
I don't.
Gmail doesn't pretend to be private.
Jeff Johnson is an Apple privacy information hero and deserves every penny for his apps like StopTheMadness https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness