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MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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400 points dulvui | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 08:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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mgoetzke ◴[16 Oct 24 09:44 UTC] No.41857244[source]▶
it also leaks the audio of tabs before logging in.

Even though I had disabled all 'restore' applications features, macos sometimes decides to 'start' browsers BEFORE logging in after a restart AND those start auto-playing audio from whatever was paused before the reboot (or many days before).

Since then I went rather deep disabling that feature, but I never trusted it.

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threeseed ◴[16 Oct 24 10:05 UTC] No.41857358[source]▶
I have never heard of anyone with this issue.

The only explanation is that you restarted whilst having the "Open All Previous Application" checkbox enabled. And yes it will launch processes after you have logged in but before the Desktop is shown.

Either that you or you have some launch daemon that is opening a browser.

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eru ◴[16 Oct 24 10:31 UTC] No.41857516[source]▶
I also have this issue from time to time.

> The only explanation is that [...]

Please show some more imagination.

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1. threeseed ◴[16 Oct 24 11:48 UTC] No.41858009[source]▶
Maybe you should use your imagination and read the second part of what I wrote.

Which is that it could be a launch daemon. It's very common for third party apps to use their imagination and do dumb things on startup.

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2. eru ◴[17 Oct 24 00:43 UTC] No.41865334[source]▶
> Maybe you should use your imagination and read the second part of what I wrote.

The comment only advances two causes.

> Which is that it could be a launch daemon. It's very common for third party apps to use their imagination and do dumb things on startup.

Yes, that's possible, but unlikely to be an exhaustive list of reasons. Especially since in this case it's about browser tabs playing stuff before logging in, not about any weird third part apps.