tonyswhirl Posted January 13, 2006 CID Share Posted January 13, 2006 Scans your harddrive looking at what music you have!! They are all alike Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted January 14, 2006 CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 i hate to disrupt your pointless rant at apple with facts, but the itunes software merely sends the artist of the mp3 tag to itunes to let the itunes ministore that is displayed show similar albums. turn off the itunes ministore with a button in the equalizer and ET stops phoning home. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyswhirl Posted January 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 Further work by other bloggers such as Kirk McElhearn found that the data being sent back to Apple to make the recommendations included artist, title, genre as well as unique identifiers for a computer and iTunes account. Privacy advocates complained that Apple had not done enough to warn people about the information that was being collected, nor what was being done with the collected data. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted January 14, 2006 CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 do you use gmail or yahoo mail? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyswhirl Posted January 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 do you use gmail or yahoo mail? Both Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted January 14, 2006 CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 Both GMail scans our email's to provide relevant ads...no one really cares though, but hey, its still there. Small things like these though...they don't really matter...I could care less. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted January 14, 2006 CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 Both so you let yahoo nad google peruse your mail at their leisure and then complain when apple tries to sell you a cd? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted January 14, 2006 CID Share Posted January 14, 2006 I can't stand solicitation, but one thing that the Internet does is desensitize you to having products constantly shoved in your face. Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand, and I doubt very much that that will ever change. Your privacy will always be vulnerable, so you just have to be wise in your actions. But complete anonymity would make the Internet unsafe, because then anyone could get away with anything (it's bad enough as it is). Since the Internet is de-centralized, and more or less un-policed, most companies take their own measures to ensure some sort of regularity. There will always be a way to trace an action back to the culprit. So surf wisely, grasshopper. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10492-now-apple/#findComment-109902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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