Apps watching you

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  • abettertomorrow0

    Its a nice article for providing the info, but in the grand scheme of things I have a hard time seeing app purchases as that great of a privacy threat.

    After all, the exact same tracking process goes on for most sites you visit on the regular web. If someone is going to build a profile of you to advertise to (and companies do that for all of us, based on this info, which is of course "anonymous":), the regular internet is a much greater source of data than a few apps.

    Try looking here for instance:

    ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia... Player/#SharedObjects/

    These are all the sites that are tracking you for various reasons. All made possible by......Flash (sorry Boz:)

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