Fuck Apple but honestly this app is like trying to stay warm with matches in Antarctica.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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Fuck Apple and I'd prefer matches in Antarctica to no matches in Antarctica.
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I’m gonna play devils advocate here (and probably be monstrously downvoted);
ICEBlock stored the location data of all its users on Apples iCloud Servers. This the perfect target for ICE; a complete database of locations of every person who doesn’t want ICE to know where they are.
One assumption is that that Apple realised how tempting this data is to the current demonstrative administration and purged it before ICE could get their civil-liberty-abusing mitts on it.
You're giving apple too much credit. Tim Apple literally gifted trump a golden statue. The press are reporting that this is directly in response to a request from the DOJ. This isn't apple having a moral epiphany and thinking they're doing ice targets a favour. Corporations don't do that sort of thing unless it will make them $$$
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Something worth noting, if you are using iCloud, advanced data protection is your friend. Apple doesn’t have the encryption keys, you do.
This is not on by default.
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ICE is objectionable... did they got "confused"?
"Good thing I got revenge though on Google's sideloading ban by buying a phone that never allowed it to begin with"
We should make webapps for everything. When done properly they are as fast as native apps, can work on any device and do not require a dev license or account.
They're now supported on Firefox on Android, so good news!
About time!
Thanks for the great news!
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Who could have seen this coming from the company whose CEO gifted Trump a literal gold plaque in celebration of his reelection?
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