The good news is that we've got every reason to believe the company recognizes the problem and is working to solve it -- but on a completely unrelated front, they're trying to speed up the process of fetching raw data off the interwebs, too.

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The difference is that fetching this information may imply going to other data storage providers, based on the choices your connections have all made for themselves.

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