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by ProllyInfamous 76 days ago
Add these to your PiHole (DNS blacklist):

*.icloud.com

*.apple.com

*.apple-cloudkit.com

*.apple.akamaiedge.com

You can then manage OS updates via <http://www.MrMacintosh.com/>'s instructions (requires USB media).

If you don't want to do this, you should still add:

smoot.apple.com (to blacklist)

...unless you like each Spotlight keystroke being timestampsent to Apple servers.

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This will disable a lot of "features"

—OldMan (primarily Mac owner since 1992)