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Apple's Spotlight Search Results Come With Engagement Metrics. No One Knew.

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Apple's Spotlight Search Results Come With Engagement Metrics. No One Knew.

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How Apple's Spotlight API exposes undocumented interaction data for every search result it serves to over a billion devices When an iPhone user types a query into Spotlight, Apple's servers return ranked results spanning web pages, apps, maps, news, knowledge graph entities, and stock data. Alongside each web result, the

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scytale@piefed.zip
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Yeah I just set up a new Mac Mini today and turned off anything that isn’t local in Spotlight’s search settings.
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If you leave it on by default, yeah.

Go through your settings, people. One-by-one.
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  This should not be on the user to figure out
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Apple respects your privacy.

Also, I am the pope.

I can keep going if you’d like.
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