Luckily, the fiasco with Little Snitch was resolved, and I can enjoy a mac for occasional design work, but Figma is running well in the Browser and if I see any attempt to push me into Ad Hell, it is totally over.
Vertical integration is important for Apple, but as an old Apple user, this will be "no-fly zone" for me.
Actually, CSAM had a positive in my life. Since then, I am using my smartphone less and with basic apps, some banking, calls and chatting.
Personally I’m deep in the Apple ecosystem. I don’t think I’d leave because of this ads idea, but I share would get pissed off a lot because of it.
We all have opinions. And I have invested a ton of money in Apple products in 20+ years of usage. Constructive criticism is not "Bashing".
CSAM was a blatant attempt for breaching user privacy and classification with third party agency hidden criteria. We live in a surveillance economy and ads are the highway for privacy abuse. Apple argument: "We don't share the user data" has no ground for me.
In the increasingly connected world, with billions of data points, trusting a big tech behemoth is a suicide act. Allegedly. :)
I feel like there's a good amount of FUD about this, so for anyone who might not know: All online file hosts do CSAM matching against known CSAM images, regardless of the client OS(s) you're using. In Apple's case specifically, matching only happens to images you've uploaded to iCloud Photos.¹
¹ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...