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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by nicce on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:38PM (#28225392)
That is not true if you read the technical details. Scan applies for files (and only for those) which are prepared to be uploaded into the cloud.

If you don't trust that, that is another story. System is full black box.

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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by marcus_holmes on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:35AM (#28231920)
Yes, but it happens on your iPhone. So what happens on your iPhone isn't staying on your iPhone like they said it would.
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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by 28220968 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:25AM (#28233530)
So when I said:

Am I missing something more than "but it's happening on-device!"?

Your answer is "no".

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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by marcus_holmes on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:58AM (#28273891)
I think you're deliberately missing the point here.

It's not whether it happens on-device, off-device, in the cloud, in the tubes, or anywhere.

It's that Apple said that they would not do this, and now they're doing this. You can make technical quibbles that what they promised was slightly different to what they're doing, but they're irrelevant. The core promise of "what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" is being broken. It's that breaking of the promise that people are angry about. Does that make sense?

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