Filed under: Audio, Security, Windows, Macintosh, Apple
New version of iTunes tells Apple your listening habits
by Jordan Running Jan 11th 2006 at 9:50AM
When you update to iTunes 6.0.2, released yesterday, the first thing you'll notice is the "Mini-Store,"
a new pane at the bottom of iTunes that tries to sell you music. It's on by default, and as though that weren't
presumptuous enough, it also turns out that the
Mini-Store constantly sends Apple information on what music you're listening to. Without asking your permission.
No, not even the EULA. Cute trick, Apple—the Mini-Store could have been a handy way for me to discover new music
and make you a few pennies in the process, but you didn't ask my permission, or tell me how you plan to use that
information, and now it's getting turned off.[Via Boing Boing]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
L'Emmerdeur said 10:22AM on 1-11-2006
Have they been pilfering "talent" from Sony? Knuckleheads.
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Keith said 5:24PM on 1-11-2006
Has anyone verified that simply turning off the Mini-Store stops sending them your listening information?
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phizm said 7:43PM on 1-11-2006
Just when you thought iTunes couldn't get any worse...
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