Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off

Nia_The_Cat@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting (kinda) coincidence. I’ve just switched from Android back to iPhone, after about 10 years away from the platform.

  But I use an always-on Wireguard VPN back to my home network, with my DNS set to my Pi-hole servers and my firewall rules blocking access to all external DNS servers, except from my Pi-holes for upstream resolution.

  I’m yet to do some p-caps to see what I’m missing in this setup - while I’m confident it did a great job of protecting me from a lot of Google’s data-harvesting shenanigans, I’m yet to investigate what I need to do to achieve a similar outcome for my iPhone.

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  • Nia_The_Cat@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps.

      Thanks for that - great tip for new players.

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