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apple-telemetry

Domain blocklists, IP blocklists, Little Snitch .lsrules, and cloaking files for blocking Apple telemetry

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
223GitHub stars
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What it is

Domain blocklists, IP blocklists, Little Snitch .lsrules, and cloaking files for blocking Apple telemetry

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:01:32 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-07 01:45:42 UTC to 2025-08-27 02:56:20 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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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
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t and https://github.com/adversarialtools/apple-telemetry to try and block apple and others telemetry .. but apple just seems to get around it by using, x.apple.com.akadns.net or x.apple-dns.net
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