WARNING: Using News.app enables "Location-Based Apple Ads"

[Mike Richardson]

WARNING: Using News.app enables "Location-Based Apple Ads" Without Explicit Permission

https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...r-the-first-time-re-enable-location-based-ads

I have personally verified this. The ONLY System Service Location that I allow on my Mac is for "Find My Mac". Every single other system service is disabled. The only other application enabled is "Maps".

This needs to be an EXPLICIT permission ask on the News.app. Anything else is abuse.

Furthermore, I could not sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.news until I disabled "SIP". WTF? Why the hell is SIP preventing me from configuring my own damn computer? (You have to remove that folder, which actually contains the preferences, before you can repeat the abusive behavior).

Since I had to turn off SIP anyway, I just went ahead and sudo rm -rf /Applications/News.app as well.

 

[Minghold]

Furthermore, I could not sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.news until I disabled "SIP". WTF? Why the hell is SIP preventing me from configuring my own damn computer? (You have to remove that folder, which actually contains the preferences, before you can repeat the abusive behavior).

Since I had to turn off SIP anyway, I just went ahead and sudo rm -rf /Applications/News.app as well.

What I did (in Mojave): From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks. (My next mission is killing Safari too, since it's been rendered useless by Apple planned-obsolescence.)

 

[gilby101]

WTF? Why the hell is SIP preventing me from configuring my own damn computer?

It's all for your own good!! haha

SIP is for those who want to let Apple control their computer. Easy enough to turn off for the rest of us.

What I did (in Mojave): From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks.

Then never upgrade your macOS. You can't do that with more recent macOS. [I assume you needed sudo as well]

 

[Minghold]

SIP is for those who want to let Apple control their computer. Easy enough to turn off for the rest of us.

It would be just lovely if it stayed off. instead of <throw knucklebones> randomly turning back of after a PRAM-zap to reset some trivial thing (like the screen deciding it was always going to be dim after start-up).

Then never upgrade your macOS.

That's the plan; instead, I will fork it. (Silicon Macs are designed to auto-croak anyway; it's not like ten-fifteen years from now you'll find perfectly good machines at the recyclers for ten bucks the way you can with intel Macs. They'll be bricks. I'm tellin' y'all: get to know your recyclers and buy every intel Mac they get.)

You can't do that with more recent macOS.

That's why that's the plan.

[I assume you needed sudo as well]

Nope. ("resetpassword" also still works in Mojave.)