My build pipelines have been failing the last 7 hours because of this.. Amazing that it's still green on the status page. Twitter reports a lot of affected users as well.
Ha! This explains why I always get "cookieandkate.com" suggested when I want to visit another site that starts with "cookie". I was extremely frustrated that it suggested that site with higher priotity than the one I actually visit mostly every day. And I had never myself gone to that site.
That's very strange, you'd expect Apple to provide a good UX by suggesting a website from your bookmarks, history and then their list. I wonder whether that's an oversight or an intentional implementation.
Safari does use your bookmarks and your history, but at some point the history expires so some sites I go to rarely don’t autocomplete and I add bookmarks when I notice.
Also it sometimes is too slow to pick up that I don’t want to go where it autocompleted, I hit go, then immediately hit back and typed more characters in to get the actual site I wanted. I could go and edit my history, but that process is a little clunky on my phone.
In addition to sibling poster, and while they've gone in an unfortunate cloud sub direction overall, it's still possible to buy an entirely standalone non-subscription normal license for 1Password and sync vaults via Dropbox, iCloud for those in the Apple ecosystem, a folder, or manually via WiFi. You can then use an application firewall or anything similar to monitor all network connections. At least from what I've seen 1Password makes only the expected connections needed for their own services for things like auto update checks, Watchtower (a typical local compromise check system with k-anonymity, their page here [0]), and sync. All of them can be disabled with no effect beyond the expected of those functions not happening.
I do wish we lived in a world where things had gone a bit differently and LAN had gained more of a role in all this, and one could pay for and run their own 1Password server. Of course for that matter passwords and they exist now shouldn't exist at all, it should all be public keys. Password managers themselves are a form of collective madness and horrible path dependency. And in principle 1P could maybe do some form of exclusive first party tracking and simply give up on whomever didn't talk to them. But for now at the least they still have the option to avoid dependencies on them pretty well.
