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    Requests to account.parallels.cn

    Parallels has gone to the level of criminal conspiracy now in a effort to hide the proven fact that they send your data to a Chinese website. I was banned from the forums. Two of my posts were deleted and another was shadow banned. Shadow banned post was here...
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    [resolved] Parallels connects to account.parallels.cn. is it safe?

    Hello, Parallel desktop attempts to connect to Chinese domain account.parallels.cn. is it genuine parallel domain or my system has been compromised? thank you
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    "Parallels Toolbox.app" would like to access data from other apps.

    I'm never sure how to answer this when this pops up. Should I allow it or not? What tools in Parallels Toolbox need to access data from other apps?
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    Why is the tool "Hide Menu Icons" capturing my screen?

    Why is the tool "Hide Menu Icons" capturing my screen? Can this be disabled?
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    Internet only on VM

    Hi, I use Parallels on macOS. Can I have an option to disable internet/network on host (macOS) and only enable on VM ? (it's for privacy purpose : i want to use a specific WiFi ssid for the vm, and have only the traffic of the VM this network)
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    trying to understand how parallels phones home

    Installed the trial on a m1 mac and I see it establishes a connection to desktop.parallels.com which concerned me. What exactly is going through that encrypted session. Does it drop the session after some kind of one-time activation ? Does the product need to be able to connect there to...
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    Parallels Desktop.app would like to access data from other apps

    I'm getting the message "Parallels Desktop.app" would like to access data from other apps every time I launch a VM. I can choose between Don't Allow and Allow, but there appears to be no way to make that choice permanent. This started happening a couple of months ago, when I was still running...
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    Questions regarding "Product Usage Data"

    The Privacy Policy states that: 'We collect information about the way you use our Products after you have installed and registered them, if your in-product settings are set to enable such collection. The specific "Product Usage Data" varies depending upon which Product you are using, but may...
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    Microphone mute

    I have installed latest version Parallels tools for Mac, OS Monterey for apple silicon M1 Pro. MBPro 14". A week ago I started receiving notification from feature called "Mute Microphone" from Parallels tools saying, that Some application unssucessfully tried to unmute microphone, and it is...
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    Personal Guest on Employer Host: Security & Privacy

    Hi. My employer provides me a macbook ("work-book") for work. I would like to give my personal macbook ("my-book") to my child for home schooling, and use my work-book to access a clone of my-book for personal needs, via parallels. Since I'll be opening a my-book on an employer-owned host...
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    Why is the Clipboard History app creating image files buried in the /private/var/* directory?

    I found that this app, part of Parallels Toolbox, was adding image files (heic and jpeg copies) of things I copied out of the app to deep directories in /private/var/folders/* and also attempting to encrypt those image files. I can't imagine why this would be needed, and it actually looks a...
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