apple-telemetry

Alas, no distinction is made between (a) a computer owner that wants to write software to run on their computer versus (b) an "app developer" who wants to write "mobile apps" and distribute them to others for financial gain The computer owner in (a) is not creating "malware". Any arguments that "verification" is for the protection of users (not commercial benefit of Google) are inapplicable in (a). Unlike the software in (b) the software in (a) only runs on the computer owner's computer, not anyone else's computer. There is no need in the case of (a) for Google to know about what software is running on the computer owner's computer.^1 Surely Google would agree there is no need, i.e., no right, for a computer owner seeking "verification" to know what software is running on Google's computers or the identities of Google employees. 1. N

I just put this list in /etc/hosts. Seems to work well enough. I don’t use any apple services on my Mac. This will probably break those. https://github.com/adversarialtools/apple-telemetry

So long as we are sharing.. looking through my shell history: organize windows without using a mouse. https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle stop accidentally navigating back in chrome with the touchpad. defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE Something about enabling darkmode? defaults write com.google.inputmethod.Japanese.Tool.DictionaryTool NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 0 show hidden files in finder? defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Disable attention seeking app bouncing animation, for those of us sensitive to these things.. defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE If you run dnsmasq, you can add addn-hosts=/etc/dnsmasq-hosts-blocking/ to the your dnsmasq.conf. In that folder you can put files from https://github.com/unixsheikh/dnsmasq-blacklis