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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast
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What I'm saying is that if you type "cat videos" in the search bar, it will immediately search the KDE Discover app store for relevant results, by default. It's not searching the entire web but it's still sending a request to the internet, one that can be tracked and shared (for example if you have Flathub enabled in KDE Discover, and Flathub happens to use Google analytics on their servers, then Google would know about everything you type in the search bar)
Actually, I just checked with Wireshark, and no traffic left my PC when I searched for a name of a flatpak app, not until I actually opened Discover to look for the app. Discover has a local cache and KRunner uses that for app searches.