FYI, I’m getting this information from the App Privacy Report in settings after which you scroll to find “website network activity”.
I tunnel all of my traffic through a virtual private network over https on an iPhone and still find that apple is able to monitor the website names I connect to when browsing through safari. How is this possible? Are they picking up on the SNI parameter which leaks the hostname I’m contacting or this an example of how virtual private networks are ineffective on IOS in general?
The same way Chrome/Firefox/IE/etc all know the websites you visit on a computer. The VPN is network layer not the application/OS layer. In otherwords, anything you do on device isn’t passed through the VPN until it leaves the device.
Wow. And there’s no way to prevent this sort of monitoring?
You can turn privacy report off?
What’s the point? That won’t stop apple telemetry.
Is this true about all of it? They warn that they are gaining access with it on, but that suggests that with it off they are at least accessing less.
Keep in mind the word suggests lol. I have come to find similar things as you in my iphone. Admittedly very very very crafty ways to track. Including but not limited to reversed wording, switching yes/no button locations, removing “select all” or any way to edit more than one list item at a time, same setting in multiple locations which both need to be set the same to apply, settings that reset themselves, some settings overriding others, etc etc. So does anything even help? The level surveillance that has become totally automatic and unprecedented is criminal. I mean should be. Of course nothing illegal is illegal for the parties who control what is and isn’t, for whom, when there’s exceptions, and who to or not to answer to.
Shaking my fist doesn’t seem to work either.