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		parasubvert 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 Plenty of Linux distributions phone home, in some way, by default.

LtWorf 9 months ago [–]

They send user data? Source?

Debian has popcon, which must be enabled explicitly and that is it. It sends the list of the installed packages.

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