What do you mean "lately"? This has been going on for a long time; just search Hacker News for entries related to sluggish performance on YouTube and Gmail for

What do you mean "lately"? This has been going on for a long time; just search Hacker News for entries related to sluggish performance on YouTube and Gmail for example. Their search being criticized for reasons different that made people switch to DuckDuckGo are, however, somewhat novel.