Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:20:50 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 75 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:20:51 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4a09b71ce59489ad6edef4e726af9288"; logging-data="3503779"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qTc24LihHdG2A5z3iYnFF11alHEAgZmA=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vy91y5wImWwe2Y/Uk07MQMVH6Ck= Bytes: 3696 On 2024-11-25 13:58:00 +0000, Tom Elam said: > On 11/24/2024 6:51 PM, Andrew wrote: >> In keeping with the proof that of all common consumer operating systems, >> only Apple murders privacy, today I tried to add an "App Store" account to >> the iPad I had set up recently to have an Apple ID (which killed privacy). >> *Piece of shit iOS has absolutely zero privacy for God's sake* >> >> >> >> Now... Apple murders privacy again by requiring 2FA to prove I'm me. >> >> So I give away my identity (again!) to Apple with a phone number that is >> very personal and very validly only mine - and that satisfies Apple's >> hunger to know everything there is to know about you that it can get. >> >> Sigh... but it gets worse... >> >> When I try to log into the App Store, I'm *required* to give Apple an >> address which I did NOT have to give Apple to create the Apple ID. >> >> Huh? >> >> Why can't stupid Apple keep their own identifications in the same place? >> >> But wait... there's more. >> Now for this *second* ID on the iPad, I have to give Apple *more* private >> information. It's not enough that they already know who I am. >> >> Now they want to know *where I live*. >> WTF. >> >> Bastards. >> >> But wait... you'd think the address can be completely bogus, right? >> >> Nope... >> >> It has to be a "valid" address. >> Just to create an account on Apple's mainframe servers to get apps. >> >> How do I know that? >> >> Because I type a bogus address (made up so I can't remember it now), and it >> fails, but it doesn't tell you why other than it must be a "valid" address. >> >> WTF? >> >> Why is it that only Apple murders privacy just so you can get apps for iOS? >> >> Anyway, I come up with the idea of picking an address off the Internet >> using the "Random Address in California Generator" which gives me a "valid" >> address so Apple's mainframe servers are happy with the App Store account. >> >> >> And then... only then... after handing Apple my identity ... >> >> That works. I get the app. >> >> But why did I have to do those machinations? >> Why does only Apple murder privacy? >> >> No other common OS system vendor requires you to give up your privacy >> just to get apps off the app store so that the device can do stuff. >> >> Just Apple. >> >> That's a fact. > > So why do you even have an iPad? There are Android tablets. Can people please stop replying that idiotic name-changing troll. :-\