[mconley]

> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it.

FWIW, Mozilla does the same thing for Firefox Accounts sync data - it's an opaque blob that we couldn't decrypt even if we wanted to.

(Disclosure: Mozilla employee)

[timothya]

For the record, Chrome's sync data can also be an encrypted blob that Google can't decrypt[0].

[0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en

[Sakiina_]

This is good to know. Might tempt me back to Firefox from Chrome.

[autoreleasepool]

I switched to chromium with homebrew via

    brew cask install chromium

last night. AFAICT, it's exactly the same as chrome minus the proprietary code. I literally haven't noticed a single difference other than the nicer icon.