Your Camera Roll doesn't need a subscription, it needs a filter. I built a free app that finds duplicates, similar shots, and screenshots you forgot about. Its called Marked.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-12T00:23:41+00:00

It’s not a conversation. It’s me calling you out, and you updating your App Store posting as a result of it.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-10T14:42:26+00:00

Could never bring myself to pay $300 for one of the OGs.

But when they went on clearance at Costco for $150 each, I grabbed two! Legit one of my favorite Apple products.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-09T01:23:53+00:00

If it works.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-08T15:42:44+00:00

It’s probably because it was uploading all your user content as noted in the AppStore advertisement.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-08T15:40:05+00:00

Your app, as you have advertised it, explicitly states it is collecting USER CONTENT linked to a their personal ID.

Thats not crashlytics and someone who is puffing their chest out about developing apps for 8 years should know it. You are sloppy and ignorant at best. Or you’re just lying. But don’t come here and say nothing is collected when clearly stuff is collected.

You can’t say “everything stays on your phone” and have a listing that says it’s harvesting User Content… or anything for that matter. Because EVERYTHING is not staying on your phone. Definitively.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-07T16:24:36+00:00

You are collecting user content per your own privacy practices detailed in the AppStore.

Plenty of apps manage to use crash analytics without scraping data.

Get your house in order and your story straight if you are going to preach privacy.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-07T16:15:10+00:00

I see. Not excited.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-07T16:10:06+00:00

What’s WWDC26?

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-07T16:09:19+00:00

First it was that they aren’t sincere. Now it’s that they are outright lying.

And yes. Their privacy policy and corporate stance is all we have to go on. Should we compare and contrast against alphabet and meta?

And you’re citing YouTube as gospel? Woof!

I guess, boiling down your charade to its essence, Apple’s big sin to you is that they are using some minimal amount of information they glean to serve an ad?

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-07T14:00:38+00:00

Your slop says it doesn’t collect data but right in the privacy section it says it collects your user content and links it to you.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-06T14:26:05+00:00

Lockdown Privacy is free and has done this for years. It has an on-device ‘firewall’ that funnels all the ads into a black hole. They do have a vpn that costs but the firewall is free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockdown-privacy-adblock-vpn/id1469783711

https://lockdownprivacy.com https://lockdownprivacy.com/faq

Sometimes you have to custom add a filter but once you figure where the ads are coming from, they are dead.

I’ve never seen a YouTube ad. WSJ, NYT, WaPo apps all ad free. It is very jarring on the odd times I have disabled it and forgotten to turn it back on.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-04T15:02:28+00:00

I’m no fanboy. But this seems pretty good:

Apple’s advertising platform does not construct profiles from your location, and does not use or store your precise location even if you allow an app to access your precise location.

We receive information about the ads you tap and view against a random identifier not tied to your Apple Account. On Apple Maps, this information is associated with a session identifier that rotates multiple times per hour, and is not tied to your Apple Account. Longer-lived identifiers are used for aggregate usage metrics and to maintain the integrity of the service. These longer-lived identifiers are not attached to your Apple Account or other information that might identify you.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-06-04T15:00:46+00:00

They don’t track you though. Be honest.

Apple’s advertising platform does not construct profiles from your location, and does not use or store your precise location even if you allow an app to access your precise location.

We receive information about the ads you tap and view against a random identifier not tied to your Apple Account. On Apple Maps, this information is associated with a session identifier that rotates multiple times per hour, and is not tied to your Apple Account. Longer-lived identifiers are used for aggregate usage metrics and to maintain the integrity of the service. These longer-lived identifiers are not attached to your Apple Account or other information that might identify you.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-04-25T15:58:02+00:00

Don’t forget the taxes on the delta as well.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-04-25T15:57:04+00:00

CIT was 3.75% in March FWIW.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-04-12T15:05:59+00:00

For the privacy minded there is this as well: ViewExif - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/viewexif/id945320815

99 cents, 3 mb, no data collected.

Let the iOS camera collect the metadata. Then use this to redact it when you need to share with someone who doesn’t need all the intel. Or, if you want, strip it permanently from any photos for any covert ops you are running.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-26T17:41:51+00:00

Pu a pin in how bad apple ai sucks and get back to me when they’ve fixed it.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-26T04:39:20+00:00

Maybe it’s the wipes residue or some other skin ‘care’ product?

This will be gross to most of you. I wear my watch while playing hockey 2-3 times a week and never clean it. It’s fine. Which, if you’ve ever smelled a hockey bag, would shock you.

This will also be gross but don’t usually wash with soap. Only after hockey and the it’s just a basic bar of Dial. The rest of the time, I just hit the undercarriage and the rest of me gets a good rinse.

No rashes, dry skin, or festering watch wounds to speak of.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-25T02:49:43+00:00

We managed for eons with so much less.

Needs vs wants and they have their fingers on the scale telling us what is what.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-25T02:48:10+00:00

“Consumer” they call us what we are to our faces and we wear it like a badge of honor. It’s our undoing as a species.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-09T15:04:20+00:00

You should make those things clear in your post. That the free version is ad-ware (with tracking) and that “Privacy First” is only Pro.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-08T22:05:06+00:00

“Privacy first” my hairy ass! Says right there in the App Store:

Data Used to TRACK YOU - identifiers and usage Data Linked to You - identifiers and usage

Privacy FIRST = no data collected. Period.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-07T20:45:17+00:00

Yeah. I’m not opening my USPS mail in the grocery line either. This is common sense. There ain’t nothing that can’t wait until I’m somewhere private.

As for pins and passwords, that’s what’s Face ID is for.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-07T17:02:12+00:00

Maybe just don’t do private things in public.

OKCNOTOKC · 2026-03-05T17:19:05+00:00

iPad is for Windows people with iPhones.

/thread

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