Dear all,
for those of you who have not noticed yet: Big Sur from Apple is out. With serious privacy violations. Apple has changed the code so that it bypasses local firewalls such as Little Snitch and also VPNs. Additionally, it sends much more data home now.
As can be read here: https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
You can also go to the homepage of little snitch. Anyway, this increases the need for an independent device outside the mac computer to block connections. A beautiful case for eBlocker.
So the importance of eBlocker has just increased tremendously to me.
Unfortunately Apple is not the white knight of privacy they claim to be. 😕
They have also removed the Do Not Track switch in Safari a while ago. Not that all trackers respect the flag but some really do obey user‘s choice. Fortunately eBlocker sets DNT by default too.
Apple is no better than the rest of the breed - but their marketing is 😮
@benne unfortunately, the marketing and the actions diverge at the same speed. So far it had been a good compromise for me. And I disagree, it had been better than microsoft, until now. The fact that e.g. windows home has no hard disk encryption on board and in macOS it is a one click activity tells a lot. The telemetry of windows was a pain in the butt, but now apple caught up. Glass Wire on win was ok, but not comparable to little snitch one mac. Hence, I need eblocker more than before.
So I played around with various Linux dists, but none really convinced me so far. Ubuntu removed a simple hard disk encryption in 18.0.4 or so. And if you want to do it later you have to get a phd reading about Luks etc. Nothing for the end user. “But this year, Linux will make it to the desktop.” Nope. Setting up VPN on a Linux box is often still command line activity. It may be called blasphemy 🙂 but I use currently a little bit Linux in a VM on a mac. I know I know I know 🙂
I switched to Ubuntu Linux since 2 years. First 18.04 now 20.04
Harddisc encryption --> no problem, during installation easy
VPN configuration --> you have to install some packages, and the you you can import openvpn files via GUI --> easy
Try it
regards
PIO78
@pio78 When you install ubuntu 20.0.4 then hard disc encryption is not easy at all.
The only easy way is to install 18.0.4 and then upgrade to 20.0.4. Can you send me a link where I can set a flag in ubuntu to 20.0.4 or later to encrypt the hard disk during install? I did not see it. (Which is still worse than on mac with FileVault but would suffice my needs)
The command line is never easy, sorry.