It's creepy that my MacBook Pro knows my native speaking language while I only use English to operate my MacBook Pro. The reason I know this because the screen saver displays definitions of words in my native speaking language. How do I stop Apple operate system from spying on my MacBook Pro?
MacBook Pro 15″
Have you gone to the screensaver section of your system settings and looked at what is checked in the options for the Word of the Day one?
I don't understand why you think this kind of interaction between parts of MacOS is a form of "being monitored". It's just one piece of apple software on your machine using a language or region setting from somewhere else. It is the same way the OS can add a keyboard to your Input Sources list when you add a language to your Preferred Languages list. Or assume what the default spellcheck language or list sort order should be on the basis of the topmost Preferred Language.
TechnicalGuyKinda wrote:
Very creepy huh?
What language does it use for you with "Automatic"? I'm sure it's intended to use something which the user would expect or want for some reason. In the past I've mostly seen complaints that it could not display the users native language.
PS To ask Apple to change how these things work, you can use
http://www.apple.com/feedback
My Word of the Day screen saver options said "Automatic". Very creepy huh? They are spying on your MacBook Pro with great intelligence. What other data do they harvest from your computer without you know it?
My native speaking language French. This act is not a plus in my eye. I don't feel comfortable being monitored without my permission. What are other things being monitored without customers' knowledge?
macOS Monterey 12.6.1
