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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by suslik on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:12AM (#37077178)
How would they connect search results to an individual? Surely, a simple VPN, which is a basic internet hygene these days, prevents that.
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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by ludwik on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:33PM (#37080685)
That's what AOL thought when they released the anonymized search data of their users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release). Turns out they were very wrong.
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