macosxhints.com — As describe in this hint @ macosxhints.com. if you simply disable the mini store (Edit: Hide Ministore, or just Shift-Command-M), then no data is transmitted. There you have it, you can go back to listening to iTunes paranoia free.
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david513Jan 12, 2006
I have no problem with this new feature in iTunes. First, there is no reason to think that Apple is keeping a database of the music you listen to. That sounds paranoid. Second, it's easy to turn out. Click one very obvious icon at the bottom. Third, it's a useful feature that amazon.com and other companies use all the time. Some people will blow anything out of proportion.David
valisJan 12, 2006
Didn't we already know this? Digg is beginning to really bore me.
steve693Jan 12, 2006
They can say that information isn't collected, but if you're on Apple's servers searching for music, they can see how many artist's pages get hit how many times. It's no more "private" information that you send out watching a television broadcast. (better analogy)
t3hxJan 12, 2006
Ok, I opened ethereal and saw what it sends back. It sends back the artist, album and genre of the song. That is all. Nothing else. It also only sends back the songs you click on.For those of you who say it's spyware: You're wrong. 1. The EULA makes it clear, and 2. If it's not sending off the song that you click on, how the hell else will it suggest matches.And as Berkana said, Tune-alyzer is way more privacy invading than this.Software Update is as well, because that looks through your entire system for Apple stuff that needs updating.
muikanoJan 12, 2006
what i want to know is the complete list of 6.02 upgrades. It doesnt seem like much of an upgrade if it's just hte mini bar. Video Podcast playback on my Itunes is still choppy. Well, i do have google desktop, Azureus and dc++ on at the same time but still, my other players aren't jumpy, no reason quicktime should be.
saintstryfeJan 12, 2006
Bye-the-way... a confirmed source inside apple, according to MacOSXHints.com says that no data is collected - simply recieved, processed, and deleted... no collection. Just processed.
zionsrogueJan 12, 2006
Spending practically all of my time coding, I have really come to see the power of open source. An issue like this could have been quickly dismissed once released. What I do find annoying though is that people that freak over Windows doing something that might be "reading your data". Though there is no way that this is as bad as Sony's RootKit, and a literal "spying" definition of sorts; this is still quite condemnable. If anything, the feature should have been disabled from start to ensure security (something that Apple goes crazy over with Windows users and how they should switch over) if not been left out totally.
zmichJan 12, 2006
ahdustin--"You gave Apple your CREDIT CARD."I bought music store cards with ca$h.
chimpy72May 22, 2008
Old article, I know, but just for clarification: Software Update actually only looks through your Receipts folder in Computer/Library/Receipts, and checks the version of the package in there to the corresponding one in Apple's Software Database.