Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules

Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by seanw444 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:30PM (#31158072)

Stuff like this in-kernel with Linux is heavily discouraged and you'd be almost publicly shamed. If it's a problem with user-space, simply use something else.

With Mac, you can usually handle the user-space scenario. Not so much the kernel-space one.

That's what's great about Linux. You don't have to submit to somebody else's will if you don't want to. It takes more effort, but good things always come at some cost.

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Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by ajsnigrutin on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:39PM (#31161731)

Yep, if some linux kernel component would bypass iptables and called home, Linus would probably use some very very profound words, before denying the patch and effectively killing the "new feature".

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Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by xvector on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:27PM (#31160147)

And yet Linux is a terrible choice for the vast majority of users, no amount of "user choice" will change this. Most users don't need choice, they need structure and guide rails.

Apple is arguably engineering computers and OS UX "correctly," e.g. better for most people.

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