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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 hour ago

Every Mac since 2022 ships a pair of daemons to build a graph about you

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Every Mac since 2022 ships a pair of daemons to build a graph about you

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Anatomy of Apple's Personal Knowledge Graph — Eighth Rank
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Every Mac since macOS 13 (2022) ships a pair of daemons whose only purpose in life is to build a graph about who you are, who you know, how those people are related to you and to each other, how you communicate with them, where you go, what you do and when. In this post, we look into how this system works and give you a tool to peek into your own graph.
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    Just a PSA: the entire article is AI generated

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    We know Amazon’s doing practically the same thing, and Google, Facebook, etc. are doubtless doing it too.

    The difference—for better or worse—is that Apple’s using your own machine instead of their servers.

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    Ew gross. I’m going to find a way to block this.

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      I got you. Just add this to your hosts file:

      127.0.0.1 8rank.ai
      
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      Would a crontab running every minute to kill the relevant deamons work?

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    Wow, what the f… That’s remarkably invasive.

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