it’s not clear from the lemmy.ml post and the edits, but the blog post describing the behavior is from november of 2020 and the description of how to mitigate/block it is from february of 2021.

five days after the blog post in november of 2020 apple made a statement about deleting their ip logs, encrypting the communications and giving the option to disable these processes. those three actions seem to address everything in the blog post directly related to the complaint.

i haven’t had time to check definitively and see for myself on my own hardware and network yet, but the comment from the cross-post that “apple doesn’t seem to have been using their old servers for this” (paraphrasing mine) seems to be accurate at first blush looking at the house’s traffic logs.