> Apple committed in writing a few major versions (i.e. ~3 years ago) to providing a preference setting for disabling online OCSP checks in macOS when I made a stink about it, within one year. Not only did this not happen within a year (a rare instance of Apple actually outright lying), but someone was kind enough to write me and tell me that <i>Apple has edited the webpage to remove this promise</i>. (emphasis mine)<p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491</a><p>Fortunately an older version was archived: <a href="https://archive.ph/yhThW" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.ph/yhThW</a><p>I believe the part that was removed is near the bottom:<p>> In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:<p>> - A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks<p>> - Strong protections against server failure<p>> - A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections<p>Definitely a curious turn of events.