 All right, let's talk about privacy because this was a big one for me. So there's two things that Apple announced with privacy as I see it, you guys might have more. The first is very much focused on mail, which is that mail now has constructs in it that will keep all of those tracking beacons that are buried in email addresses, the little pixel trackers that are buried in email, not email addresses that are buried in email messages that track your IP address and then your location. And then because you've loaded the pixel that tells someone whoever owns the pixel that you have read the message, they are now obscuring everything from all of that. So that theoretically people don't even know that you've opened their email. They don't know who you are. They don't know where you were when you did that. And this, I can think of a million cases where maybe not a million, but many cases where this will cause some issues for the way certain people do business, but it totally fits with what Apple does and I applaud them for it. I think it's great. I think it causes more good than harm, though it will cause a little bit of harm and that's okay. And then there's iCloud Plus. So I wanna put that sort of on a shelf and then there's iCloud Plus, which has three things in it and I'm going out of order intentionally. It has HomeKit secure video, which will open to more than five cameras, which is great. There is hide my email, which is let you create obfuscated email addresses so that email gets to you but no one knows what your email address is if you wanna use it. They say that the pricing on iCloud Plus remains the same, which is- Tell me you didn't think as they were going through this, when you saw that plus sign, you were thinking- Yeah, plus to the price. Only $5 more a night. Of course. Not a month. Well, especially with the third feature, which is what they're calling private relay, where it sounds like they've essentially recreated the Tor network, although hopefully quite a bit faster, where it's bouncing your traffic through two different servers so nobody knows who you are or where you're coming from, not even Apple's servers in the middle. But also they're encrypting everything. Correct, right. So let's think about it and they say no performance lag. Right, which is unlike the Tor network, right? Which is right, yeah. But that's really interesting to me that they've essentially taken this and done it. It's effectively like a multi-layered VPN, although I'm sure someone out there will have a better terminology than that feedback at mackeykev.com is the email address to yell at us and tell us what we got wrong. I would say a VPN tends to fool somebody into thinking your traffic originates from another country, say. Sure. Whereas this wouldn't do that. Maybe what? There's no country of origin or whatever. It's all Cupertino. My concern with that and my friend Dave did say feedback at mackeykev.com just to make sure you guys heard that. I said feedback at mackeykev.com. Okay, good. Feedback? At mackeykev.com. Well, we usually do it in threes, Mark, but we'll let you add one. What concerns me is similar to what they did with the mac address randomization in iOS. This is gonna break things that I may not want broken. Fair. I may want people that email me to know that I opened it or know my location or make my, and to tell you the truth. So some of the, in iOS now, they have a thing now where it's like, oh, do you want to share blah, blah with blah, blah, this info with this person? And I'm like, honestly, call me crazy, but for most of them, I'm like, I like this vendor. So yes, I will allow them to continue to track me because, and I'll talk about it in a future episode, but the other day in Instagram, I got an ad for a product that I've been looking for for ages and it popped right up. Because they know what I like. It was a charging cable, multi-tip, and it's animated and stuff. And I've been looking for this, and they know this because, I look for it every now and then on Amazon and stuff. Like I got, and all of a sudden it came up. So not all tracking is bad, in my opinion. And Apple lets you make that choice, right? They wouldn't have popped up. They'd let you make the choice, and I think that's good here. The mention of masking all this in mail, it sounds like they're gonna by default do this and I'm not happy about this. Just like when they by default would randomize your MAC address, that caused a lot of grief for a lot of people because if they tied their MAC address to their DHCP, all of a sudden it broke. And they're like, what did I do wrong? And it's like, you did nothing wrong. Apple just kind of made a choice for you, so. One thing about this private relay that I want to find out more, and I'm almost certain that I will be able to watch a dub dub session this week to answer this question, is what apps does it affect? Because it sounds like it might only affect Safari. And I would like it to be able to affect other things. Very specifically, I would like to see it affect the podcast app. Because just like there are pixels that are being put into our mail, some podcasts, not this one, but some podcasts are allowing pixels to be put into the download of the podcast. And you have no, like the worst part about that is there is no way to opt in. You are just like if the host, publisher, whoever chooses to do it, you are tracked. And then they track you by going to, when you go to different sponsors' websites and they correlate it all together. Again, it's fine if you wanna opt into being tracked, but podcasting doesn't really have a way of doing that. So I would love to see Apple fix that problem through Private Relay with more than just Safari and we'll find out. You know, I have an app that I use a fair amount that is now broke. I literally just today got an announcement from them that basically said, we've done everything we can to work with Apple. We cannot find a solution that Apple will accept. And it's called Mail Plane. And it's basically a Google Mail app. That's on my end. The squeaky door. I heard the squeaky door. I'm like, did someone just walk into my room? I'm in a haunted house. That's cool. But basically the app does that thing where they put up a, in effect, a web page with Google Mail on the web page, but they do it, they hide everything they can hide. But it's now not gonna work anymore. And they sent out a letter saying basically, we'll be happy to give you your money back, but we can't fix this. And now it's end of life, which it just makes me sad because I'm so used to it. I now need to find a mail client. And I don't know what the good mail client is, but maybe I'll use Monterey's mail. I'll give it another shot. Sure, sure. Yeah. My next time trying Apple Mail. I used to use third-party mail clients. I chose them very specifically for their features. And I ran into that scenario, maybe not quite that draconian and end, but I ran into that sort of functionality limitation scenario too many times that I decided I'm just all in on Apple Mail. Hopefully it remains extensible, at least as it is now, so I can use things like Mail Acton and Sig Pro and the little plugins for mail. Because of that exact thing where Apple can just like decide, hey, today's the day. That doesn't work anymore. I can't have that done to my email. One of the things that it just came up with you and me today was you said, I send mail and then I get a delay. I use that in mail plane. Is that a thing in Apple Mail that I can send a mail and have it be delayed? It's not, but it is a thing in Small Cubed which is the company that makes a, what they call the Small Cubed Suite, which is really a collection of four plugins. One of those plugins is called Mail Acton and Mail Acton lets me do that among many other things, but that is mail plugin or it's a mail plugin. Yeah, I'll put it in the show notes and I'll because we're buddies here now. I'll send you a link to the thing. But yeah, yeah. Yep, no, Mail Acton is great for that. And as a side delaying my email and I choose to have it delayed by two minutes by default that you can choose whatever you want, including none, no delay, but that two minute delay has a saved my bacon more times than I care to admit. And both in terms of like, I really don't wanna send that email, but also you hit send, you go focus on something else and then it hits you like, wait, I should also say this or I should, while I'm in this, I should ask this question and I can go and edit the message and rework it and send it all off and then it's like all good. I also have it warn me if the word attaches in the email and yet there is no attachment. Yep, yep. Same thing. That's funny. So yeah, SmallCube's Mail Suite, which has Mail Acton in it is your answer. Sorry to derail the conversation. It's okay.