The US v. Google antitrust case may be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy, but occasionally we get some fun nuggets. The quote above comes from an internal email sent by Google’s Jim Kolotouros, VP of Android Platform Partnerships. “Chrome exists to serve Google search,” he writes. “If it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”
Move to Firefox (or any non-Chromium browser really) and use a different search engine that’s not run by a giant corporation. I use DuckDuckGo.
Doesn’t DuckDuckGo just use Bing and suppress search results?
It supposedly uses Bing and several other search results while suppressing content mills. I’m open to using anything though, DDG just happens to be the more privacy oriented one I went with.
Didn’t they suppress Russian related search results?
Yes, so use SearX which uses all the search engines, including google, duckduckgo and Bing, but shares 0 of your data with them.
Yeah but you either have to use some rando’s instance or host your own. That’s not exactly safe or easy to use.
It’s a nice project though.
You can always change instance every few searches in case there is logging
Yes.
Switch to brave browser & brave search completely.It’s independent.
I’d rather put a microphone in the toilet and listen to you take a dump.
That’s a big negative.
Brave is chromium
Or just pay Kagi. If you’re not paying they’re gonna have to get their money somewhere, and search is expensive.
if it’s not open source I don’t trust it
I started getting targeted ads on DDG this morning. They were targeting my search terms, and Microsoft had bought the targets. Getting Edge ads in DDG is a hard stop for me.
Sadly the default one of google 🫠
Perhaps I’ll switch to Firefox when they actually start getting things together and start implementing the things people ask for instead of actively removing functionality deemed “too complicated”