The fact that Reddit for iOS insists on being in the “Information and Reading” category instead of “Social” like every other social network drives me up a wall. Same deal for Twitch for iOS insisting that it’s “Photo and Video” instead of “Entertainment” like every other streaming video service.
@aral I kinda sorta agree, but the line here is a thin one. I’d argue that the baseline of deciding what data to share is security, not privacy. If you’ve decided that your data should be yours alone, and then you discover that it isn’t and that someone else has access to it, you have a security issue.
In my mind, privacy is deciding what others can do with your data once you’ve decided to share it.
#Privacy is not “I want to be invisible on the internet.” That’s anonymity. Privacy is control over what others can do with your data. Your rights, your choices, your data ownership.
I’d love for Mastodon to have a native timeline syncing API so that I can pick up where I left off no matter which client I’m using. Unless that already exists, in which case I’d love for clients to actually implement that functionality.
Millions of 60+ year olds are about to try to learn how to use Twitter for the first time to follow Tucker to his new platform. Twitter’s about to be the hottest thing since Nextdoor.
1. I’ve barely noticed anything on macOS or iPadOS. Web browsing is slightly impacted on the iPad, but that’s not a huge deal. It’s basically invisible on the Mac. Connecting accessories requires an extra confirmation, but that’s about it.
2. Things are more complex on the iPhone. Focus modes aren’t shared, including Sleep mode for Do Not Disturb functionality. The indexing of images and text in message history is disabled, so finding anything via search is almost impossible. Web browsing is much more noticeably impacted here, with some website icons and images being replaced with random emoji. A lot of very small things are broken.
Verdict: I’ll keep it enabled on the Mac and the iPad, but I may disable it on my iPhone. Either that, or I’ll leave it enabled and disable it temporarily as needed.
Here’s a good example of weird web browsing stuff. Booking a Disney World reservation on the web. The calendar forward arrow has been replaced with the beer emoji. And the star used to indicate bonus reservations has been replaced with a speaker.
@horse I think it definitely has its benefits if you consider yourself a high profile target as it covers a lot of the holes that malware tends to sneak in through (Messages, web browser technology, etc). But it drops convenience fairly significantly when it comes to those things, so there's a pretty massive trade off for that safety.
It doesn't impact me on my work device, but it probably would on my personal device.