I avoid Google products. Aside from YouTube and Waze I'm pretty much able to avoid their stuff because of how bad they are with privacy.
A healthcare provider now requires a family member to do telehealth using Chrome. Their system doesn't play well with Safari; indeed, we weren't even able to...
Today I got an email from Apple about an app subscription renewal that I didn’t recognize. On closer inspection I saw that it was my wife’s subscription and that the notice had been sent to us both.
Is this a normal policy for Apple now? Because to me this seems like a pretty big privacy...
Hey everyone,
I watched the WWDC keynote and was happy to see, that they added the ability to specify which contacts you want to share with a third party app. In 2021 I wrote Craig an email:
A day later, Craig replied:
I am very happy that they added this to iOS 18. It's a feature I have...
Was stalking Reddit today and noticed that Google has been busy pushing the new Android ad campaign.
Do they really think image search on AI steroids is the “next big thing”?
I mean, they even made a whole landing page (android.ai) with “switch from ios” link just to lure iOS users.
Do they...
Simple question; just as the title says.
For those who want some backstory:
I have purchased a series of matter enabled homekit accessories, and to my surprise they don't work without a homekit hub.
I have an M1 Ultra Mac Studio and an iPhone 13, but for reasons I absolutely fail to understand...
I found this app in my photos privacy & security app & ive googled & googled & I have no idea where it's from or what app its supposed to be called can anyone please tell me & how do I remove it? I added 2 photos for reference.
iPhone 14 Pro 17.0.2
I have a shortcut called Send Me an Email that I found somewhere. Whenever you were on any web page this shortcut would send you an email of the URL. It worked fine for years. Now it fails in Safari with the following error:
The Privacy Tab for this shortcut seems to...
"iOS 17 update secretly changed your privacy settings; here's how to set them back"
https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/ios-17-update-secretly-changed-your-privacy-settings-heres-how-to-set-them-back/
"Many iPhone users who upgraded their iPhones to the recently-released iOS 17 will...
Greetings earthlings,
Alright, so over the past several years I’ve grown from indifferent to skeptical to wary to downright disdainful of google and any and all google products. When they bought out YouTube that one hurt. My favorite website, now monitored and powered by the great nosey spy...
So this is the press release from Apple and they also mentioned in the keynote about this
But has this privacy option not existed since ios16 and there it’s called “selected photos”? If yes, then what exactly is new with this feature?
INSANE. This is exactly why I do not use any Meta products.
https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822
"[The] report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers’ income, tax deductions and exemptions was...
I am able to disable chat history within the ChatGPT web app, but see no such setting in the iOS app. Is it enabled by default? Does the web setting affect to the iOS app?
Hey everyone,
I recently downloaded an application that requires a bluetooth connection to a device, however, it appears as though the app doesn't have access to bluetooth. I have another app from the same developer that requires bluetooth, and it can successfully connect.
In this way, I have...
What was the last version of Mac's Messages, that you could print out PDF without black boxes on top of pictures?
Or in which OS it shipped.
I think I'm gonna make a virtualbox installation for that...
Unless there's an app that autamatically does it.
For starters I'd like to export 500...
Apple’s increased end-to-end encryption in iOS 16.2 is a great thing, and long overdue. It’s a real shame they are not going all the way and still leaving Contacts, Calendars, and Mail out of the E2E encryption. The “interoperability” reasoning they give for this is completely bogus...
A landmark court battle recently found that State & Federal government law enforcement agencies are allowed to compel (read that as “force”) citizens to unlock their phone if TouchID or FaceID is enabled, but they are not allowed to do so if the user unlocks the phone with a passcode that must...
Hello, this is a rather serious question about the way Apple handles payments on their App Store, as well as subscriptions.
Because this post is about privacy, I will politely ask anyone who’s tempted to say that there’s not such thing as 100% privacy, to refrain from replying because that’s...
Hi. This is a question about privacy issues on MacOS app created by Apple.
According to Apple's data collection policy, which is open to the public, Apple is collecting various personal information (including "Data linked to the user") when you use their original app like Pages, Numbers and...