every App Store search is logged letter-by-letter, with millisecond timestamps. Apple can compute your typing speed.

every search you type, timed to the millisecond, stored to your account

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/06/17/apples-app-store-search-data-stores-every-single-keystroke

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago

where shitpost?

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago*

    That’s, like, a search box logger? Not a “key logger.” Seems like a title that could easily be more precise and still attract eyeballs.

    Edit: oh, it’s OP editorializing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Aw man the app store is where I put all my passwords and private journal entries

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So I should type “pee poo piss poo” over and over every day, got it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Just the app store that we know about? I wonder if google follows suit on android, and microsoft on anything they have similar on computers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It's time to join the Amish I think, minus the religion

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    That's really not so bad as a walled garden you paid a premium price to enter presenting you with sponsored apps when you do a search in the app store.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I had to confirm this wasn’t the onion community.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This comment "Much ado about nothing. 

    All Apple systems monitor your data input in real time to get better context of what you're doing. There's nothing sinister about it. 

    It's not just Apple. Google Search does the same thing, every key you typed will bring up results relevant to your input for decades."

    It does [sketchy stuff] because [reason mentioned on the text]. Nothing sinister about that! [Most sinister company] does it too!

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I wouldn’t be surprised if this feature could be or isn’t already extendable to the whole OS for the Feds

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    IDK... I'm not defending the bad shit Apple does. But they pushed back against both US and UK govs who were trying to backdoor their shit.

    In the UK case, they pulled the entire feature rather than backdoor it for the Home Office. With warning for users, so ppl are not expecting to have encryption, w/o knowing it is backdoored.

    In the US case, the US gov tried to compel Apple to create special versions of IOS with encr backdoors. The gov later found a 3rd party who was able to unlock the iPhone, and withdrew the demand. But a judge ruled that Apple could not be compelled to build a special backdoor version.

    I don't like Apple. I don't use 'em. They have privacy probs for sure. But they also have pushed back lots of times vs gov attempts to force backdoors into iOS.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Its actually really easy to opt-out to all of these big tech features: don't buy from big tech companies. Or if you must, root them and install your own OS.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    But, it's apple so que the excises for why it's not that big a deal

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    It’s a shame the app store is such a terrible interface. As atrociously bad as the Amazon interface is, at least you have some limited ability to sort & filter results. Apple just says ‘fuck you’ and shoves what they want in your face.

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