Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

The part I found interesting [edit: but apparently not true, see comments below] is about Apple:

> The other thing I really dislike about Apple is their stance on privacy. They're bad, like really bad on privacy. Despite the advertising hypocrisy, which since the porn filter debacle has been bunk, whenever you have your mac connected to the internet most of what you're doing is being recorded. There is literally 30+ daemon processes constantly phoning home and doing all sorts of telemetry.

> If MacOS Big Sur was around 15 years ago it would be considered a thin client. Another great privacy innovasion is that even though I don't use icloud or icloud photos or backup or anything like that, Apple still runs image recognition and face detection over all my photos with no option to turn it off. Big win for privacy right there.

Sounds even worse than vanilla Windows. I didn't realize it was that bad.



Here's a link to a previous comment of mine about what's going on under the hood of macOS at any one time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229881#29230318

Notarization via http are something that can't be "turned off" and are telemetry at its finest. Blocking it at the network layer is the only way.


You can completely disable analytics on macOS for both 3rd party developers and Apple itself


Because it's not. Nothing on this page is trustworthy or well reasoned.


Thanks for clarifying. I haven't used any Apple devices for quite a while, so I wouldn't know.


His claims aren't true. There's nothing recording your actions on a Mac.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: