Do You Realize How Much You Share Your Location?

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While the sentiment here is a over-the-top, it does raise an important question: do you know how private your location actually is? Read This Article → How Difficult Is It to Replace an iPhone Battery? With iPhone owners rushing to get their batteries replaced, wait lists at the Apple Genius Bar have been getting longer and longer. But if you don’t want to wait, you can actually replace the battery yourself. Read This Article → What Is the “commerce” Process, and Why Is It Running on My Mac? There’s a process called “commerce” running on your Mac right now. You can find it using Activity Monitor, but with a generic name like that, how are you supposed to know what it’s doing? Read This Article → Save 10% on Instacart by Opting Out of the Service Fee InstaCart automatically tacks on a 10% “Service Fee” to every order you place, but you can actually opt-out of this fee to save 10% on every InstaCart order you place. 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