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It's a bug, there's no way they did this on purpose.
Why is there no way they did this on purpose? Understanding common searches would seem like valuable data to use to improve Siri, et al.
that's what i meant when i said there was no way this was done on purpose - apple care far too much about their credibility to pull that sort of stunt.
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Perhaps it would make sense to update your Gist to make it clear that Apple isn't trying to force people to funnel their searches through their servers, and that the real issue here is confusing UI?
It's not even that confusing. This is just alarmism for pageviews. Of all the large tech companies right now, Apple has made the most moves to protect user privacy. Disabled 3rd party cookies by default in Safari, randomized WiFi queries, full device ios encryption, opt-in only crash reporting, restricted MAC and UDID access, zero information shared with ApplePay, etc. And yet we're supposed to get out the pitchforks…
on github...
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Firefox Nightly also has a tracking protection in about:config => privacy.trackingprotection.enabled its off by default seems to also block some adverts when on. (probably because those adverts are also trackers)
Wait. People are upset about how unintuitive Apple's preferences are, but Firefox having config hidden away in the advanced about:config is OK?
Sounds logical enough to me.