The other half of my heart, the half that enjoys snooping on snoopers and figuring out what they’re up to, leapt.įor those not familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a service that lets hardware and software developers have customer data automatically uploaded for analysis. This says the company will send data to Google Analytics, but was vague about what type of data.ĭata collected includes ‘aggregate usage data, technical session information, and information about hardware device.’ The half of my heart that cares about privacy sank. Robert Heaton says his curiosity arose when he wondered why a glorified mouse required a privacy policy. I use my Intuos 3 Medium on my 2016 MBP with MacOS Sierra with no issues.A software engineer has discovered that Wacom tablets log every Mac app you open, and sends that data to a Google Analytics server…

I’m obviously concerned that an OS upgrade could render my tablet useless if the Wacom driver doesn’t work on Sierra. The latest Intuos 3 driver on Wacom’s site is listed as ”MacOSX - Driver 6.3.15-3 (10.9x - 10.11x)”. I’d therefore be facing an upgrade of my machine to Sierra. However, Capture One 10 requires a minimum of El Capitan to run. I’m a Capture One 8 user and would like to upgrade to C1 10. It’s therefore difficult to tell whether any mentions of Intuos 3 tablets with Sierra were specific to that generation of tablet or inclusive of the Overall problems Wacom was having with the new OS. My searches have yielded results that were pretty much all from the overall problems with Sierra that Wacom was having after the new OS was released. Has anyone had experience or seen direct confirmation of these older tablets running in Mac OS Sierra? I’ve been using this tablet without issues on my iMac which is running Yosemite 10.10.5. I have on old Wacom (PTZ-631W) which I believe is from the Intuos 3 series.

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