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Comment by mtillman

14 hours ago

Mac OS without the background ads garbage or the constant blocking of call-home requests would be nice.

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platevoltage  11 hours ago

Where are you seeing ads?

  • mtillman  21 minutes ago

    Maps, news, stocks are all installed by default and supported by ads. Opting out eliminates personalization. One needs to install an app like lulu to block background calls even with personalization turned off. This started with the twitter integration many years again and while social is no longer tightly integrated, the philosophy around user fingerprinting “while not being tied to your identity” is still very much alive and well in a default macOS install.