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Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple by bo1024 on Sunday October 19, 2014 @08:54PM (#8480229)
It's not at all inaccurate.

Might be alarmism, I don't know. But I think it just demonstrates the ways in which users' expectations about privacy are mismatched with the products they use. For example, your average non-tech-savvy user would never realize that an important privacy setting is in a search setting marked "suggestions".

It's hard to say more without seeing the text of Apple's Privacy Documentation that is referred to at the top of the article.

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Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple by jsmthrowaway on Sunday October 19, 2014 @08:59PM (#8480242)
> For example, your average non-tech-savvy user would never realize that an important privacy setting is in a search setting marked "suggestions".

Is this not clear enough?

http://i.imgur.com/i1Zq3E4.png

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Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple by ljfuller on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:31PM (#8480333)
Apparently not :-)

Those instructions disable "Spotlight Results" only in Spotlight-as-in-desktop-Spotlight.

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Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple by bo1024 on Monday October 20, 2014 @09:32AM (#8482002)
It sounds like this is what the author of the article was reading. But there's nothing there about Safari.
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Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple by dvhh on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:34PM (#8480342)
Let's imagine that the name would be replaced by a slightly let popular company, say one which name begin by an F or a G even one with an M, pichfork would have been already out.
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