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You can't opt out of Apple's own keylogger (appleinsider.com)
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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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[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

It's on the websife I mean