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Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Actually, all that is for the tracking cookies. The actual weather data is never stored. This is how they support such advanced levels of inaccuracy.