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by sneak 6 days ago
It's E2EE (only if you turn it on, which you can't do in the UK) but it saves (non-encrypted) the hashes of the plaintext of the files to Apple (presumably for dedup).

This allows Apple to see which sets of users share unique Winnie the Pooh memes. They know who had them first, who they sent them to, and when.

The E2EE is useless with such unencrypted metadata leaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8_caB35Pg
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SXX 6 days ago
> only if you turn it on, which you can't do in the UK

Fortunately changing Apple account country is as easy as buying US gift card on Amazon and unlike Google they dont mess with account location.

As about encryption I totally agree its pretty meh, but again it's not why I paid my $1.

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sneak 6 days ago
It’s not based on Apple account country, and even if it were, it’s not nearly that simple to switch it.
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SXX 5 days ago
Did you checked it? I did.

I do have Apple devices in UK that have E2EE enabled and it works just fine.

Switching account country is super straightforward: cancel subscriptiona, change address to US, top up with apple gift card from amazon us.

No US payment details needed.

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