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by calgoo 12 days ago
sure, but google will still get all your queries, so when you ask about something specific, you dont think they will figure out you are John Smith, on street X, asking about the ice cream shop down the street?
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> sure, but google will still get all your queries,

They do not. Per Apple's documentation, they run on Apple's Private Compute Cloud [1] - while part of Google's GCP, full confidentiality is guaranteed that even Apple itself is not able to access user data.

That's more of an effort than I see any single competitor even attempting.

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/

[2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third...