My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

Post by ehutch79 » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 12:54 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #51

al_borland wrote: post #17

While this seems like a lot, in some ways this is what user's expect. Push notifications should be coming all the time, assuming the system is on. Most users expect various maintenance services to run when the system idle so it doesn't interfere with their active use of the system. When users open apps like Weather (or view a widget), they expect it to already be up to date without having to manually refresh or wait…

When Microsoft has telemetry: * Windows is a spyware machine - how can anyone use it? Year of Linux baby! When Apple has telemetry: * It's working as expected. So... to be fair, is there a thorough comparison of the two? How are they the same, and how are they different?

Post by klodolph » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 12:55 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #51

al_borland wrote: post #17

While this seems like a lot, in some ways this is what user's expect. Push notifications should be coming all the time, assuming the system is on. Most users expect various maintenance services to run when the system idle so it doesn't interfere with their active use of the system. When users open apps like Weather (or view a widget), they expect it to already be up to date without having to manually refresh or wait…

When Microsoft has telemetry: * Windows is a spyware machine - how can anyone use it? Year of Linux baby! When Apple has telemetry: * It's working as expected. So... to be fair, is there a thorough comparison of the two? How are they the same, and how are they different?

Post by SkyeCA » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 12:56 PM UTC

st3fan wrote: post #27

roblabla wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A default linux install is incredibly silent on the network. You might be seeing some mDNS stuff, gnome/firefox may do some requests to detect captive portals, but overall the amount of network traffic is pretty small and manageable. It's important to note that, generally speaking, Linux software does not come with default-enabled telemetry, and for those that do, distros like Debian will routinely patch out phoning…

That is only because there is barely any open source software for Linux that is backed by cloud services. Now install Spotify, VSCode, Steam for Linux and you will see the same kind of chatter with backend services.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 12:57 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #17

While this seems like a lot, in some ways this is what user's expect. Push notifications should be coming all the time, assuming the system is on. Most users expect various maintenance services to run when the system idle so it doesn't interfere with their active use of the system. When users open apps like Weather (or view a widget), they expect it to already be up to date without having to manually refresh or wait…

Post by lapcat » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #77

SimianSci wrote: post #20

Polling domains when attached to the network like this doesnt suprise me in the least. Apple's ecosystem has often been praised for its tight integration, and this consistent network connectivity is the result. Anybody who has worked with large scale services that rely on messaging services to ensure people get timely notifications and data, knows that you need services which are continuously polling endpoints to che…

The article’s author would apparently be happier if everything were on a single domain with just ports or paths to separate services. Thinking about the number of DNS names seems kind of silly.