Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
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Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#2Funny - just compare how Ubuntu was bashed for Amazon lens in Unity and how differently Apple is treated for the same (or even worse) things here on HN
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#3Funny - just compare how Ubuntu was bashed for Amazon lens in Unity and how differently Apple is treated for the same (or even worse) things here on HN
My mac has not yet shown me advertisements for when I was looking for my files.
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#4Original discussion can be found here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479958
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#5I wonder if the iPhone does something similar
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#6I like what I have seen with Apple's (apparent) focus on privacy with regards to iOS and the later iPhone models but this is pretty worrying - I'm not one to care about sending my data to some cloud service when it offers some tangible benefit to me, but some of this data is pretty intrusive and I can't see what benefit it is adding.
Assuming everything here is accurate then Apple have screwed up and really ought to rectify this pretty quickly if they want anything they say about privacy to be taken seriously in the future.
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#7It searches the web as well as your local drives, so sending those searches out is exactly what I'd expect. Now, I can also see the case for not making 'do a web search too' the default, but if you can't have that and not share your searches with Apple.
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#8I recently replaced Spotlight with Alfred and realized how much I was missing out. It's surprisingly faster and cleaner. I would really suggest it to anyone who haven't tried it yet.
Re: Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
#9Funny - just compare how Ubuntu was bashed for Amazon lens in Unity and how differently Apple is treated for the same (or even worse) things here on HN
My mac has not yet shown me advertisements for when I was looking for my files.
They weren't advertisements. They were product search results.
And the concern wasn't about the fact that it shows products, but about the fact that data was being sent to Amazon (unencrypted as well, I believe).