{"id":4394,"date":"2014-12-30T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2014-12-30T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:33:55","slug":"tuneup-media-2-5-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/30\/tuneup-media-2-5-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"TuneUp Media 2.5 &#038; Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TuneUp is a tool that you run alongside iTunes. It cleans up tracks and is general maintenance for those of us that still buy tracks outside of iTunes. I\u2019ve been a customer since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I sent some pretty harsh words to the TuneUp Support team today. I\u2019ve been a yearly customer of their product for a while and I\u2019ve at least spent $100, maybe more on TuneUp since 2009. I like the product and was disappointed when iTunes 12 + Yosemite was released that the tool no longer worked and that was after buying a lifetime membership (again) since it\u2019s tied to a computer\u2019s serial number. Yeah, that\u2019s right it\u2019s annoying but I had already come to terms with that a while ago. The issue with TuneUp 4.2 was that it simply didn\u2019t work with the Apple updates released in October. I waited patiently for a fix.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of December, TuneUp released version 2.5. I upgraded and it did something strange. During the install process, the prompt came up asking if I wanted to allow TuneUp to access Safari Preferences. I allowed it blindly and Safari restarted. I started using TuneUp and the bugs found in 4.2 were indeed resolved.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to do a search in Safari, Yahoo! was now my default search engine and new tabs \/ new windows opened the Yahoo homepage. I checked the preferences and they were modified and then I checked my Safari Extensions. There were 3 new extensions I had never installed:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo<\/p>\n<p>Shopping Assistant<\/p>\n<p>and one other.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a Windows user screenshot of the new EULA &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/wmalanw\/status\/546844904346091520\/photo\/1<\/p>\n<p>It looks like TuneUp was sold earlier this year to a company called\u00a0GMGP, LLC. This company bought the IP from a credit bureau or something like that for pennies on the dollar and now they are injecting crap into the application. This is horrible and very annoying because TuneUp isn\u2019t free. Further, Mac users weren\u2019t prompted to install the extra crap like PC users were so this is forcing me to install extensions and preference changes that I didn\u2019t ask for. Really disappointing overall.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest anyone thinking about using TuneUp with iTunes 12 to look elsewhere. There\u2019s no telling how much stuff is collecting your information while the app is running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a screen shot of the extensions installed in Chrome:<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-30 at 3.33.30 PM.png\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 30 at 3 33 30 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"357\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-3.33.30-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TuneUp is a tool that you run alongside iTunes. 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