Eeeehhh you got a men’s room in there?

I’d consider it a bug if the existing option was removed. Private tabs are nice if I intend to return to the page at a later date. I prefer Firefox Focus for one and done private browsing.

It could be simple download requests, rather than MAC or IP address downloads.

I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

There was also a program that would open the CD-ROM drive and play a raspberry noise at random intervals. It was a fun prank to set it to run at login.

Pro tip: if you add !g to your search results in DuckDuckGo, it returns Google results

I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.

Sure. For example, they’ve implemented cross-site tracking prevention in Safari. That disables tracking on the user end, but companies that pay for cookies on countless websites, like Google and Meta, will still obtain your site traffic through purchases. You can completely disable cookies to prevent this, but that’s really going to inhibit your browsing experience. Apple does not collect user data for their own ad purposes. If you opt-in to receiving marketing emails from Apple, you receive the same emails as everyone else.

I’m not sure why Apple hasn’t offered iMessage as a standard for all devices. E2EE commonly uses four transmissions per message (sender encryption, recipient encryption, sender decryption, recipient decryption), so it may not be economically justified to offer the service for non-customers at the cost of their servers. That’s honestly just a guess.

iCloud is secured with 256-bit AES encryption as of 2022. It was released with 128-bit in 2011. It was well above any competitor encryption offered at the time.

They’re really not. Former employee here. They want nothing to do with your data. The more access they have, the greater the responsibility to protect it. Ask someone in a GDPR compliant nation to request their data abstract from Apple. It’ll be your name, billing address, and phone number. Even handling that data required extensive personal information training.

When it comes to learning about use to improve products, if you choose to opt-in, Apple hashes and anonymizes the data before using multiple server relay to the engineers. The engineers see data collated anonymous charts and bug reports with no ability to trace it back to the user.

Internally, it’s a point of pride for the company to protect the right to privacy. They created iMessage encryption before anyone was standardizing free E2EE, and rolled out iCloud with 128 bit AES encryption (same as the international banking standard). They created the Secure Enclave as a hardware lockout point and repeatedly refuse to add a bypass (back door) despite repeated pressure from the FBI. They can’t hand over the keys if the customer has the only copy.

If you ever see a message that says, “[Software] would like to manage this device.” Tap “Don’t Allow.”

You can check if you have previously allowed device management software, and remove it, in the same place you find VPN settings. Settings > General > VPN & Device Management