Ventura docs for M2 Macs in this comment: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd?permalink_comment_id=4555340#gistcomment-4555340
Old Monterey docs in this old revision: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd/32c410e3a1de73539c76fa13ea5486569c4e0c5d
Solution for Sonoma: https://gist.github.com/sghiassy/a3927405cf4ffe81242f4ecb01c382ac
My experience on a Studio M1 Ultra;
There's no way I can see of avoiding this with a fresh install of Ventura 13.1, as it requires an internet connection during setup.
My initial attempts registered my device with DEP.
A fresh install of Monterey worked, and I was able to avoid registration and any notifications. iMessage and Facetime failed to correctly register / authenticate when I had blocked
albert.apple.com
. This wasn't immediately obvious until I tried to use Messages on the mac. Once I had unblockedalbert.apple.com
then I could re-sign in with Messages and all was well.I then upgraded to Ventura 13.1 and haven't had an issue since.
My hosts file ended up looking like this;