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There is no legitimate reason why quicklook should be hitting an API when I preview a bitmap in the Finder.

Analytics and Siri Suggestions are off. I don't use iCloud.

Text recognition models would likely be served from an Apple CDN, not api.smoot.apple.com.

I don't know what it's sending (an API hostname suggests some dynamic server code, not just a file download), but it should not be sending anything at all. I don't want it to, and I never consented to such transmission.

I didn't make the claim that file information is being sent because I didn't want to publish anything but facts. I have not done any RE on the binary itself as yet.

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I'm responding to you in good faith in the hope that you will take this with an open mind, but now that I see the previous thread, I'm worried that you might not. I'm not sure if you saw this comment but I thought it was particularly constructive and deserves consideration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403107

> I didn't make the claim that file information is being sent because I didn't want to publish anything but facts.

When you say "Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent" what 95% of people will hear is exactly the claim that scanned data is being sent to Apple. I don't think you can in good conscience say that you're only publishing facts if you are aware of the rate of misinterpretation and don't attempt to clarify.

Ironically you're doing exactly what you're accusing Apple of: saying technically truthful things that say one thing that cause people to believe a different thing (which is, as far as we know, not factual).

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I was wondering how long it would take someone to notice.

It's deliberate.