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iTunes is Malware?
Moby writes "On the heels of the big Apple love-in that is Macworld comes some interesting but alarming news. Recently a few blogs have started to indicate that iTunes is tracking your music preferences and using that data to recommend other songs from iTMS. The article provides a good overview, with some recommendations of its own. Basically, iTunes is tracking your music and sending the data back to Apple servers. This info is then used to advertise songs that may be to your tastes. A convenient feature, perhaps, but it raises concerns over privacy."
This is incredulous!! The ergonomically designed iTunes interface hides nothing from the user and shows any and all pertinent information at the briefest glance. The stylishly engineered music system and efficient online purchasing system offers only the highest level of quality entertainment with none of the underhanded skullduggery that lesser companies wallow in.
Apple soars above such outrages!! You will feel His Jobnesses' Wrath!!
May the Maths Be with you!
Amazon.com is a malicious website! When I click on a book, they show me other books that people have purchased with it!!!
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
Oh shit! Apple knows you listen to too much Britney Spears! Time to get hysterical and post to a bunch of blogs from starbucks on your powerbook.
you listen to a lot Anton Webern. Seriously, it turns out that people who bought Anton Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (all three of us) also bought Jeff Foxworthy--at least according to the ministore. That little gem of demographic goodness has brightened up my day so much I don't care how what info Apple gets from my listening habits.
Which is why when signing up for my discount card, I listed myself as a 60 year old lady with an address in a retirement center.
:-)
Makes me wonder what happens in their data centers when I make a late-night beer run...
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Uninstall it now, and install Windows Media player or Real player. I hear they are much better.
P.S. I also heard the sky was falling...
Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
Oh, come now, you're telling me you've trusted Apple? What has Apple done to gain your trust?
Why, their motto, of course! After all with a motto like Don't be Ev... whoops.. I'll come back next article.
'Nuff said
Yeah, I have two of those cards. For one I put "Carly Fiorina" for the name and I use it for most purchases. The other has my real name, but I only use it when I buy Condoms or sour cream.
Unknown host pong.
It still gets me when they try to do the whole "Have a nice day Mr. ___" after you pay them, take a look at the name, pause, and then give up on the whole tactic altogether.
But no one every told me about personal responsibility. I blame society and the government!