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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by reificator on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:00PM (#18917006)
> The premium market will pay to not deal with this nonsense.

And thus stand out for targeting purposes regardless.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by smokeyj on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:05PM (#18917363)
Targeting works the more data you have. You could target “well off iOS user” but that’s less invasive than “searched topics of adoption and abortion. Recommend local abortion clinics”. Ya see what I’m getting at here?
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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by reificator on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:43PM (#18935752)
If you have few enough users on a given platform, they tend to be identifiable by being so unique. If there's one user who logs in from Chrome in Incognito on an iPhone X via a VPN in North Korea, it's not too hard to fingerprint them, if you're looking for it if course...
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