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Re:My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One ... by potato-peeler on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:04AM (#44257955)
How does one verify all those domains are not essential to the OS?
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Re:My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One ... by ImJamal on Thursday June 12, 2025 @04:49PM (#44263047)
Microsoft explains what all (most?) of the domains are for

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-11...

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Re:My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One ... by potato-peeler on Sunday June 15, 2025 @09:59AM (#44282328)
Thanks. I think some apps do need to connect to Microsoft to deliver services like update and antivirus.

Some are used by the products itself to maintain reliability like maps and store.

Others are diagnostics, which can still be manually turned off.

Not sure why one would maintain a dedicated hosts file to block endpoints if they can simply configure this on app level itself.

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