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Except Siri processing is actually done on your device, as of iOS 15. Which kind of blew my mind when it was announced.

Nothing is sent to Apple unless you request an online service (such as weather, maps, etc.) or unless you allow your recordings to be sent.

Try it: in airplane mode on an iOS 15 device: Siri still works at a basic level. Language processing happens locally.

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So that every service I use can have a randomly generated, unique password. Therefore if one of them gets hacked and my password leaked, brute-forced, or decrypted, it won’t affect any other service.

Plus it stores passkeys and handles 2fa code generation, keeping them synced on all my devices, and ensures I never have to remember specific passwords because they’re all safely stored in heavily encrypted vaults guarded by the only single password I do have to remember. Also it notifies me if any of my information is in any breaches, or if I could do better to secure my account.

Trust me when I say, it’s safer, simpler, and smoother way to manage things.

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They definitely used to, but haven’t for a long time. It’s been viewed as an unreliable and poor practice, especially with browsers like Safari and Firefox which have already disabled 3rd Party Cookies for some time now (or at least providing the option to, as a privacy feature).

Now CORS, OAUTH, and similar mechanisms do a better, more private, and more secure job of sharing state and authentication across domains and groups of services.

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