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Did not agree to 'Help Apple Improve Search' in Spotlight - macOS users, did you?

AstonJ

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Did not agree to 'Help Apple Improve Search' in Spotlight - macOS users, did you?

Just looking through my settings and noticed that Help Apple Improve Search was checked - yet I am almost certain that I did not opt-in to this. Curious whether other macOS users have this checked and if so did you agree to it or did Apple do it without your consent?

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DevotionGeo

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I did not opt-in either, and mine was also checked.

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AntonRich

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Wow, people pay top dollar for their products and they want to pull data from their users? Seems greedy.

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bosko

bosko

Same for me.

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