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Navigation requests are very frequently home<->"place I went". Household-level driving/shopping patterns are incredibly valuable in their own right, but it's al
by spiffytech 6y ago
Navigation requests are very frequently home<->"place I went". Household-level driving/shopping patterns are incredibly valuable in their own right, but it's also easy for a dedicated company to tie your address to the personal identities of the residents (Apple's internal customer records, public records, private vendors whose whole business is selling this info), and then it's just profit all the way down.
Hypothetically, DDG could guard against Apple having useful navigational histories for your home by seeding requests with misinformation -- artificial navigation requests Apple can't tell apart from your real requests -- but I'd be surprised if this hypothetical is actually happening.
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