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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by tomp »

koolba wrote: post #117
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

Is that referring to blocking ads or just tracking cookies? Why not just block all third party cookies?

IIRC the idea is that (1) it allows third-party cookies of the websites you actually use (like Facebook so FB integration works), and (2) it allows cookies on new websites for the first day or so, and then it starts blocking them.

More info: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by robin_reala »

kbart wrote: post #111
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.

I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Have you ever been to any of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal or Turkmenistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_yea...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kccqzy »

koolba wrote: post #117
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

Is that referring to blocking ads or just tracking cookies? Why not just block all third party cookies?

Apple left ad blocking to third party developers. You can find plenty of ad blocking apps on the App Store. I imagined they did this for political reasons because they don’t want to the arbitrator of deciding whether something is an ad or not.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by delinka »

mvdwoord wrote: post #91

Does anybody have more information on this claim of a keychain vulnerability in High Sierra... just saw it fly past on Twitter. https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808 >on High Sierra (unsigned) apps can programmatically dump & exfil keychain (w/ your plaintext passwords) vid: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235313957 #smh

I’d like a bit more detail. Instructions to repro ideally. Too much is left out of the video (show me the items it will access and the access permissions for those items) and I’m inclined to think it’s staged or Mr. Wardle didn’t understand something fundamental (e.g. if you built/debugged the app on the same system where you made the video, you may have already authorized the app to fetch items from the keychain.)

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by raesene6 »

tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me.

Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription.

Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS.

In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those revenue flows.

Companies like Google who (IIRC) get over 90% of their revenue from advertising, need to make money by selling information about me to 3rd parties for advert targeting, which I'm not so keen on.

Personally I prefer to pay someone for a product/service directly.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by tangue »

mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

I had the same impression and check some older pages :

https://www.apple.com/itunes/ and https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/

The main changes are :

- JS triggered animation (webagencies do love this ). - San Francisco instead of Myriad as a font

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by synthmeat »

ditn wrote: post #122

Just a heads up - seems GPGTools has issues with High Sierra; those using PGP might want to hold off. https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/discussions/beta/2348-macos-h...

Though I appreciate the effort they're putting into GPGTools, issues preventing one from using it on Sierra went on for more than half a year after Sierra went public.

I deem that unusable.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by ue_ »

Somewhat off topic, but I'm becoming to realise that reading product pages like this is sort of like reading only the advertising pages of a magazine, but in this case I have the choice of what advertising I want to view; it's not enough to simply get information about the new system (I don't even have a Mac) but I need to be sold it as well. And the advertising is very impressive - strong colours, beautiful photography, crisp and clear screenshots and the "flat" icons. I can understand why there are so many people taken in by this advertising.
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