de-fanging iTunes ?
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
They are available for direct download on http://www.wnyc.org/shows/new-yorker-fiction/[^]. :) No iTunes required, just click the download link of the content you want and you'll get an MP3.
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They are available for direct download on http://www.wnyc.org/shows/new-yorker-fiction/[^]. :) No iTunes required, just click the download link of the content you want and you'll get an MP3.
Thanks so much, Florian ! No need to de-fang a snake now :) cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Thanks so much, Florian ! No need to de-fang a snake now :) cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
You're welcome, the link was actually on the iTunes page you posted here ;)
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I have an instinctive feral distrust of FaceBook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all other so-called "social networking" sites. Using iTunes never crossed my mind. Google/Chrome I have tamed (I hope) by using UBlock and Privacy Badger. In addition to strong AV software and fire-wall (EmsiSoft), I also use the MVPS hosts file that I imagine you know about. But, today, I found the New Yorker magazine has a repository of podcasts by/about/with famous modern writers, and I am eager to listen to many of them: [^]. The catch is you have to have an account on, and log-on to iTunes, to listen, or download them which activates my trojan-horse paranoia. If you have any tips/tricks on preventing any obnoxious behavior by iTunes, like scanning e-mail address book, etc., I'd appreciate a reply. Or, if you are certain intrusive behavior will occur if you install, and use, iTunes: thanks for your opinion/information on that. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
I don't like iTunes either. I think it's bloatware (It installs stuff like a service for recognizing if you connected an iPhone (I don't have one), quicktime, airplay etc.). Last time I wanted to download a podcast from iTunes I set up a VM for it, saved it to the disk and copied it elsewhere. If you don't find any other source for the podcast you want to download, this might be an option in the future?
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They took a pounding when their auto-update software checked the box to install additional software previously not installed (Safari). As of lately, they don't auto-check the additional add-on software checkboxes, but still make them visible and available. No thanks, I don't need your iCloud Drive software.