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For now my iPhone opens my camera without waiting for an OK from some tech giant. (I don't think that was what my androids actually did but it sure felt that way, they were that slow.)

Also they have reasons ($$$) besides tracking and advertising to keep me in their ecosystem.

It won't surprise me much if they start double dipping though, so I keep an eye on fairphones etc.

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Doesn't that same iphone scan your photos and tries to link your photos to illegal pbotos before sending them to icloud or iheaven.

Hey, that's unfair!

Think of the children!™

Currently, this is false[1].

Additionally, both of the previous two comments are based on false equivalence[2]. The two technologies discussed (online certificate checking, and file hash detection) are not the same, nor do they affect the user's privacy in remotely the same way.

I would argue this thread has devolved into misinformation stemming from uneducated claims.

1. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-refere...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

It wasn't long ago that macOS started checking every app being opened with HQ first, over HTTP (not HTTPS), before it'd let you open it.

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