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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:45AM (#27940440)
I wrote more here about why personalized results and recommendations really bother me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668373

But if Google has the information and doesn't do anything with it... I guess I just don't care? Why should I care? I'm open to being convinced on this.

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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by ptero on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:02AM (#27940566)
Google doesn't do anything with your information for this particular search shown to you. It can still be used to skew your other interactions with Google, it's partners and anyone else with whom Google decides to share the data it has on you.
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