[gigel82]

The "damn spec" clearly stated that they would be introducing functionality on your device that is capable of scanning content on your device and matching that against a database of opaque hashes downloaded from a 3rd party. That's functionality I don't want on my device.

FWIW, I don't use iCloud and never have used it; I don't care if they scan content once uploaded (it's their servers and I'm confident they'll continue scanning content there no matter how "E2EE" it is - see China and key sharing). As long as they keep their scanning on their devices and off of my device it's all good.