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• Member since: January 13, 2006

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• IDing music players...
  It's not IDing music players, such as Real Networks did in 1999. It's
  IDing users. So if you log in to your iTMS account on one computer,
  then have the MiniStore give you recommendations, it sends _your_
  ID, not that of the computer's copy of iTunes. Log out, then log
  into your account on another computer; it sends the same ID.
  Which is, I think, more insidious.

  January 14, 2006

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• I'm afraid you are incorrect...
  If you are an ADC (Apple Developer Connection) member, you
  can easily see that the X-Dsid number corresponds to your
  Apple ID. It is displayed, on your ADC profile page, as your ADC
  member number. This is the same as your Apple ID number
  (which is mapped to the email address you use as an Apple ID),
  and, in my case, and in the case of four other people I checked
  with, this is the same number that is both contained in an
  iTunes cookie and sent when the iTunes MiniStore sends data.
  
  I looked at the PDF you linked to; it is incorrect. One of the
  people I verified this with has a 6-digit Apple ID number; others
  have 8 (my case) or 9, and, most likely, people with older Apple
  ID accounts have smaller numbers.

  January 13, 2006

  1 reply