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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[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

That's really not so bad as a walled garden you paid a premium price to enter presenting you with sponsored apps when you do a search in the app store.

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