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How will this help me as a user?</strong></h4> <p>A: Your information is used to continually deliver innovative, engaging and entertaining products and services to you, consistent with the new <a href="/us/en/yahoo/privacy/index.html">Privacy Policy.</a>聽We believe that we can more efficiently deliver a better experience to you by sharing user information across our various brands. 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