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by dredmorbius 4489 days ago
Redirecting .apple.com to your own httpd will show you just how bad this company has gotten.

Care to expand on that?

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I'm not going to rant about how Apple products make gratuitous network connections to remote computers for questionable reasons. Nor the requests that many AppStore apps send out over the open internet without telling you, or how poor Apple's forced software has gotten in general.

That's why I've presented you with the experiment.

If you think you might care about such things, try it yourself and draw your own conclusions.

If you use iOS, you might need this, just to get on your own home LAN:

/test/library/success.html <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD></HTML>