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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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