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		nijave on July 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps 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

kortilla on July 16, 2019 | [–]

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

tinus_hn on July 17, 2019 | [–]

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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