Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite

Post by valleyer » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 10:54 AM UTC

JetSpiegel wrote: post #39

madeofpalk wrote: post #32

That Mail one is probably the least alarming, and I would assume that Outlook does the same thing. When you first set up a mail account, it sends your email domain to https://mac-services.apple.com/iconfig/dconf and, provided Apple has a match for it, it will return auto-configure POP/IMAP/SMTP settings. If you enter your email as @apple.com, it returns back: apple.com mail.apple.com 993 IMAP MACOSX PLAIN

Thunderbird has a similar service, but you can click on Manual Config and input that by hand.

Post by spacefight » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 11:16 AM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #52

vacri wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'apt-get remove unity-shopping-lens' hardly consumes a lot of time, particularly since you make it sound like you installed Ubuntu often enough to make it onerous - that often, and you'd remember the command without having to web-search for it.

Uninstalling bloatware also "hardly" consumes a lot of time. It's a step which no-one should have to take.

Post by song » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 11:26 AM UTC

deadweight4 wrote: post #62

song wrote: post #12

I'm very glad for that thread. I didn't know that I also needed to uncheck "Include Spotlight Suggestions" in Safari additionally to Preferences. I do not understand why there's such a backlash against anyone that points out that: 1. It's not intuitive to have to both disable "Include Spotlight Suggestions" in Safari and in Preferences. 2. People like my father who are privacy conscious but are average computer users…

The text when you open spotlight explains that it's looking on the internet. The first icon is safari. Every search you do, including siri, kortana, and ok google sends information to the respective company. Apparently bendgate didn't satisfy the fans, so they had to come up with a tortured reason to be all upset. I really tire of this horse shit, and would expect better.

Post by vertex-four » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 11:37 AM UTC

matthewmacleod wrote: post #46

userbinator wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Expecting OS level stuff to work without network data at year 2014 seems somewhat bizarre. This is like complaining that apt-get leaks info to home, telling about the packages you install. No, the difference is that people do have a general idea about whether things should be done locally or sent out into the Internet, and searching files stored locally does not belong in the latter category.

Spotlight is no longer a tool for searching local files, and is now a search tool which combines local and remote data. You can disable this feature.

Post by spacefight » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 11:54 AM UTC

beagle3 wrote: post #54

spacefight wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" They weren't advertisements. They were product search results." That line is blurred these days.

But it wasn't in the shopping lens. It was a bad idea. But let's not throw random general statements in a concrete discussion. Did you ever get a result from the shopping lens which could be mistaken for an advertisement rather than a product result you can buy on Amazon?