This appears to be some sort of metrics functionality. Don’t think there is any bad faith.

I’d recommend nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg fix this.

The public key seems to be used for certain personalization, so it makes sense they might store that for debugging, but still a privacy risk.

They could rework their debugging system to integrate tracing and logging to identify specific issues, without storing search queries or pubkeys. And limit retention to a few days, and only when necessary (query error or high latency).

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