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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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I think the first time I read about Instagram profiling typing speed/style to infer depressed users was close to a decade ago

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