[HumblyTossed]

This is nuts. There should be a grand total of zero files on my personal computing device that I cannot remove (no matter the consequences).

[ants_everywhere]

This seems fundamentally at odds with Apple's philosophy that they're providing you a rented appliance they control and which you have temporary access to.

I'm sure you can remove most and/or all Mac OS files, but they're increasingly using trusted computing and even designing their own chips to increase the control they have over the devices (and correspondingly limit user control).

They sell this as a security feature these days, but the appliance model predates that and security is kind of just along for the ride.

I'm glad to see that people feel strongly that they should have control over the files on their system. I'd like to see that help move us toward users having full control over their computers.

[threeseed]

You can remove every file on your Mac.

And there are no eternal tracking cookies for Safari even first party ones are deleted every week.

[redeeman]

then you have chosen the wrong platform. Just be grateful that the mighty apple even deems you worthy of having files

[Razengan]

Android's security was way worse for years. How long did they even take before having granular permissions or a Privacy Report, if they do now at all?

[redeeman]

uhm, they had different permissions granularized, in some ways worse than apple, some ways better.

but i was not talking security