Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store

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De : confused (at) *nospam* nospam.net (Peter)
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Date : 25. Nov 2024, 23:19:56
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Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:

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*
  <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=17771&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#17771>
 
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.
  <https://codebeautify.org/random-address-in-california>
 
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.

He has said many times he has all the operating systems.
That's why he knows so much about each of them.

Date Sujet#  Auteur
25 Nov 24 * Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store13Andrew
25 Nov 24 +* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store4Tom Elam
25 Nov 24 i+* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store2Peter
25 Nov 24 ii`- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Alan
26 Nov 24 i`- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Your Name
25 Nov 24 +* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store2Tom Elam
25 Nov 24 i`- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Andrew
25 Nov 24 +* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store3Tom Elam
25 Nov 24 i`* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store2Nick Cine
25 Nov 24 i `- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Alan
25 Nov 24 +* Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store2Tom Elam
29 Nov 24 i`- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Andrew
4 Dec 24 `- Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store1Tom Elam

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