Apple is collecting identifiable analytics

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Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Unfortunately, Apple users cannot opt out.

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This sucks. This is why we must fight for alternative app stores.

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Didn’t Mysk already release this finding a couple of years ago? Anyhooz, you can block xp(dot)apple(dot)com (already included in the more aggressive blocklists like HaGeZi Ultimate) without much consequence on daily functionality.

EdiT; it was actually 4 years ago (2022)

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See also:

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For some reason, people still think that Apple is “privacy respecting.” It’s marketing department is certainly doing a very good job.

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It is the opposite, people are doing the hard work gaslighting themselves instead, Apple just reinforces the feedback loop.

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How do you know? Broad statements like this about human nature and behavior should have proper justification. Without it, all that it amounts to is opinion and ideology. I suppose it’s fine to espouse ur opinion on a forum, but google’s AI mode seems to be scraping this forum for data to spit back out to its search engine users, which for some reason some people want to start taking as factual.

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Certainly, did you at least check the references I provided? It starts like this:

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Oh very interesting, I did not see that but Ill read it and see what I think about it

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Sure, take your time, it has been at least five years without any meaningful changes, so get comfy.