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VPNs in China get blocked all the time.
Even private VPNs? I'm not that smart about networking but it seems like it would be difficult to distinguish an SSL/TLS connection to your DigitalOcean server because you're doing normal stuff and one where you're tunneling HTTPS through it.
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Apple has engineered iOS to offer much more privacy than Google for many years, but they have not highlighted it much in the past. Was that also just a marketing move?
> but they have not highlighted it much in the past Sure they have. Every instance where they stonewalled an investigation was undoubtedly seen at least in part as a way to differentiate themselves from their main competition, which is an run by what is essentially an advertising company that functions by gathering user information. If you can do something that differentiates you from your competition and they can't…
I am just arguing against GP's dismissal of Apple's stance on privacy as a marketing move. I believe it's truly close to their heart, and it's a happy coincidence that it's also increasingly a marketable asset (given the despicable data collection practices of the big tech/advertisement firms).
But neither me nor, presumably, GP has privileged inside information on Apple's true motives (and surely they're multifaceted and complex and not monolithic anyway). So, just asserting that it's purely a marketing move and then furthermore implying that a deviating assessment is delusional strikes me as unjustified.
How is using a custom keyboard on iOS? I remember it being really bad... like it always resetting to the stock keyboard etc.
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Already noticing small but appreciated performance improvements. Share sheet and app switching both came up noticeably quicker. Am loving shortcuts, looks like they didn't dumb it down. There's even an SSH action.
Which app is providing the SSH action?
How is using a custom keyboard on iOS? I remember it being really bad... like it always resetting to the stock keyboard etc.
“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.” It isn’t often that you see any company the size of Apple take that strong of a stance. Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down.
Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down. Indeed. Between that and the imminent arrival of dual-SIM iPhones, I may actually want to buy something here. And yet, for all the information Apple provide about security and privacy, including much talk of end-to-end encryption in some cases, I have so far been unable to determine the fundamental way that all of their online services work and w…
https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
EDIT to add: DuckDuckGo gave me the above link for the iOS 11 version, but it has actually been updated already for iOS 12.
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Though I believe Apple bowed to China to give them access to Chinese citizen's iCloud data. But you can operate an iPhone without iCloud fairly easily, which is definitely nice. Doing more on-device helps them here. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...
> an iPhone without iCloud Would it send less telemetry data to Apple?
How is using a custom keyboard on iOS? I remember it being really bad... like it always resetting to the stock keyboard etc.
The only problem I have with it is you can't use them for password fields. It would be nice if my password manager could provide a keyboard.
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VPNs in China get blocked all the time.
Even private VPNs? I'm not that smart about networking but it seems like it would be difficult to distinguish an SSL/TLS connection to your DigitalOcean server because you're doing normal stuff and one where you're tunneling HTTPS through it.
Both small packets and maxing out the window size in one stream. Lack of DNS queries from the host. Single connection dominating the bandwidth.
There's a reason for all of those of course, but put them together on a residential connection: almost certainly a VPN user.
And these are all really simple heuristics. In practice, we know you can identify which Netflix video are you watching just by the packet sizes/timing.
The update seems to have messed up the color profile on iPhone X. Colors are brighter, more saturated, more washed out and generally crappier.