XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-07-11 16:48, Marion wrote:   
   > On 11 Jul 2025 15:26:20 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote :   
   >   
   >   
   >>>> I happen to own iPads so I know how they worked and work now (which is   
   >>>> different in terms of privacy). It used to be you can create an Apple   
   >>>> Account with completely bogus information - but it's no longer possible.   
   >>>   
   >>> That is false:   
   >>>   
   >>> Here is the one I created:   
   >>>   
   >>> "TestTwoTestTwo@icloud.com"   
   >>>   
   >>> It has my real phone number, true. But not my real name, or real date of   
   >>> birth, or any other personal information.   
   >>   
   >> The weak troll will claim having to use a phone number (*GASP*) is losing   
   >> all of your privacy!!! Let the pearl clutching begin!   
   >   
   > What's interesting is you MAGA trolls (make apple great again) are proving   
   > my point for me by agreeing that you can't get around the phone number   
   > requirement easily (although there are even worse 2FA methods available).   
      
   Actually, I can get around it:   
      
   Use an online (and free) service as a place to send text messages.   
      
   >   
   > You trolls agree that iOS is the only operating system where you can't have   
   > privacy since you have to give it a real phone number that it will   
   > constantly ask you for the rest of your life to have in your possession any   
   > time it wants to verify the mandatory 2FA (& there are worse 2FA methods).   
      
   Except that in all the time I've had Apple devices (since the first Mac   
   came out in 1984, BTW) I've never once had a text message for 2FA sent   
   to me.   
      
   >   
   > No other operating system makes it impossible to have privacy but iOS.   
   > a. You must give it a phone number that you will have on you   
      
   Yes: A phone number.   
      
   > b. And, in order for it to work well, you have to log into their matrix   
      
   Well look at that.   
      
   The "I only speak facts" man has suddenly changed "it won't work" to "it   
   won't work well".   
      
   >   
   > Only Apple's operating systems are designed for privacy to be impossible.   
      
   So much blather from you, Arlen.   
      
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