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Are there privacy risks in sharing the MacOS .DS_Store files?

In MacOS, each folder has a hidden .DS_Store file. If I compress a folder on MacOS, the zip file will contain those .DS_Store files. What information is contained in those files, and does it expose any information about me, my device, m…

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