Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by conradev on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:25AM (#25776597)

If you’re curious about more of the history (now, almost a decade ago), this was the scandal that likely motivated the above:

Congresspeople sent letters to app developers as a result (not even Apple, ha). iOS 6 was then seeded to the public four months after that article.

But! It actually goes earlier than this. Apple started phasing out access to device identifiers used to track users across apps in iOS 5: https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-ud...

(again, none of this was marketed to anyone)

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by samisaviv on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:43AM (#25778522)

If it was seeded 4 months after the article, it had absolutely nothing to do with the article.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by conradev on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:20PM (#25781933)

Yes, that makes sense, development timelines for these features are often far longer than we imagine.

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