I stated no and Apple stated sure – David Bushell – Internet Dev (UK)
Tuesday
22 Sept
2026
The good factor about preserving a weblog is that I can say at exactly 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I found that macOS 15.3 had enabled a function that was phoning residence each quarter-hour with private knowledge. And that I stated “no” and turned it off.
At the time Apple have been beneficiant sufficient to supply a setting to disable this function.
macOS 15 Apple Intelligence setting.
Although they hid the second half deeper, as a result of why ought to saying “no” be simple?
macOS 15 Apple Intelligence privateness setting.
Last week I succumbed to Apple’s harassment and upgraded macOS 15 to 27. I solely skipped one main model, Apple skipped 10!
And right this moment I found that Apple had eliminated the “no” swap.
The “AI” business has many flaws, the phrase “consent” being seemingly lacking from coaching knowledge and firm handbooks is certainly one of them. AI bros don’t take “no” for a solution. When Apple marketed their deepfake feature again in June it grew to become apparent Apple doesn’t “suppose completely different.”
Digging via macOS 27 settings I turned off Siri (once more). Of course, a number of unkillable Siri processes stay, stealing reminiscence and writing knowledge. For what function? Who is aware of. Note that they eliminated “Apple Intelligence” from this management.
macOS 27 Siri setting.
Trawling the online I found Apple has hidden settings beneath “Screen Time” restrictions. This is meant to be for parental controls. These settings don’t disable Apple “Intelligence” however they do clear up numerous menus by hiding the slop instruments.
All of this rubbish was enabled after upgrading to macOS 27 regardless of me having “Apple Intelligence & Siri” turned off already. That was a slightly express “no”, no?
The icing on this cake is the 22.28 GB brick clogging my disk house.
macOS 27 Apple Intelligence accounting for 22.28 GB.
Apple is charging £500/TB on new MacBooks so that’s what, £11 they’ve stolen from me?
But that’s a trivial value in comparison with the consent downside. The AI industrial complicated doesn’t do consent. You will use it. You can not look away, it will likely be stuffed down your throat and for those who say “no” they’ll reduce out your tongue.
The AI business is vile. My AI policy tried to listing my considerations but it surely’s hopelessly outdated. I can’t sustain. Here’s simply three of many headlines I collected this month:
The listing is limitless. There is not any restrict to the human toll to maintain this bubble inflated.
Call me a radical however I’ve chosen to not kowtow to billionaires. Do you need one other Epstein listing? Because that is the way you create one other Epstein listing. Fund a technology of psychopaths constructing on a basis of non-consent and privateness invasion. Fantastic thought!
AI bros preserve telling me “simply flip it off” and after I do they take away the selection.
