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They're transmitting a piece of data from my machine to their servers, without my knowledge or permission. At this point, whether they're collecting it or not, that's enough to reallly make me angry.
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hey rob
I disagree, they ARE collecting it. Whether or not they are tying the data to you directly is another story altogether, but there is a ping sent, along with the transaction id of the search to a server called metrics.apple.com ... if that's not to collect data I don't know what is! I put that info in my article at macdiscussion.com ... it doesn't have a big break down, just wanted to get the info out there to users to disable the mini store unless you have a specific need for it. Nothing more detailed to give you on it (the ping is embedded in the XML file) and happens between apple's servers, but it hold the unique ID for your search without a doubt ... given that they can choose to (or not to) tie it back to whatever data they happen to collect ... eek!
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Wait, if they included your music store ID, wouldn't they already know what you listen to based on your purchases?
I'm confused what are we worried about again?
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Your comment assumes you buy all your music from iTMS. Not everyone does.
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The mini-store request does send what looks like an iTMS id. Search for X-Dsid in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist file. I have 2 machines authorized on the same iTMS account and they both have the same id, so it's not just a random number that is made up. |
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