DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps

Re:DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps by samschooler on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @01:53PM (#20452319)

In DuckDuckGo's implementation at least it looks like they proxy all requests to Yelp so there is nothing Yelp gets from you in a non anon way.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps by nijave on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @06:43PM (#20454573)

Unfortunately it's incredibly difficult to become fully anonymous. Yelp can infer who you are by things like your home address (a few searches to see how far away restaurants are, for instance)

This Wikipedia article has a few examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification

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Re:DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps by kortilla on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @07:56PM (#20455085)

Does distance calculation even go to yelp though? That sounds like a job of the map platform.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps by tinus_hn on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:45AM (#20458095)

So if DuckDuckGo proxies your requests and they are mixed in with all other requests, how would Yelp combine your searches?

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