Aye matey, I’m so old I was using the internet back when we just said “Search online”. Kids in the US are literally taught in school to say Google, talk about product placement. Sometimes I say DDG, but honestly I’ve been using Brave Search lately.
Try another search engine partner, Google’s SEO has become increasingly less likely to find open source projects as their referral commission algorithm grows more greedy. Google is also no friend of our community as they continually remove our programs like “Kodi” from search results and target projects like YT-dl with takedowns. We monetize them simply by searching on their platform, genius for shareholders, terrible for consumers.
Imagine when film companies pay Google for access to pirate’s gmail registrations. I’m glad I switched to Protonmail years ago. Any of these “free” services will sell your information for the right price.
I haven’t used Chrome years, Firefox and Brave browser suit me fine. Since Brave uses the same engine and extensions. What’s the downside of Brave besides ppl not liking the creator? If I stopped using every device and product with an evil genius behind it I’d live in a cave somewhere with no technology at all.