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martimarkov on May 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

That's google's personalisation. I like freaking ppl out when I just ask them to google a famous politician's name and compare the results. Some times they get similar results on WiFi and very different on mobile data afterwards.

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benstrumental on May 18, 2022 | [–]

Any idea why this happens? I don't understand why WiFi vs. mobile data would impact how they want to personalize the results.

martimarkov on May 20, 2022 | | [–]

Because of IP correlation AFAIK. But tbh not quite sure it's just something I've noticed.

nomilk on May 18, 2022 | [–]

The number of results can also vary wildly.

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