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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by ballenf on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:15AM (#15338312)
Two options for data queries being passed around and saved:

A trip from your house to the sex doll shop

vs.

A trip from your house to the busy thoroughfare a mile away + trip from busy thoroughfare to the next town over + trip from next town to sex doll shop

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by stephenr on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:59AM (#15338676)
Not to mention map lookups are done via a periodically regenerated random identifier - not linked to an actual account or device id.
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