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Comment by lysace

1 month ago

> - OHTTP relay: it's sent through a 3rd party so Apple never knows your IP address. The contents are encrypted so the 3rd party never doesn't learn anything either (some risk of exposing "IP X is an apple photos user", but nothing about the content of the library).

Which 3rd party is that?

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oneplane  1 month ago

I don't have a list on hand, but at least Cloudflare and Akamai are part of the network hops. Technically you only need 2 hops to make sure no origin or data extraction can be done.

  • jazzyjackson  1 month ago

    O good, cloudflare gets one more data point on me, a ping every time I add a photo to my library.

    • threeseed  1 month ago

      a) Cloudflare doesn't know about you. It sees an IP address.

      b) If we follow your tortured logic then every hop along the path from your phone to Apple will have one more data point on you. That's thousands of companies a day.

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