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That's fine, then you just have to deal with ads, 'sponsored results' and the AI spam. And the tracking, if you care about that.

• Milpotel 1y ago
  As if adblockers/browser extensions wouldn't deal with those (minus the tracking)...
• layer8 1y ago
  You don’t have to deal with that when using a suitable ad blocker.
  • const_cast 1y ago
    ... For now, and only partially. I'm not aware of any AI blocker that exists. Not to mention Google Chrome doesn't even allow full fat ad blockers.
    • therealpygon 1y ago
      > Google Chrome That would be an awfully weird browser choice after all the privacy/ad-blocking talk.
      • const_cast 1y ago
        ... or chromium. There's only one viable option, and it's firefox and derivatives. Some tech people haven't figured this out yet, forgive me if I assumed wrong. This is, after all, in a conversation about using Google Search.
  • pants2 1y ago
    You're still dealing with the fact that Google ranks results based partly on ad-revenue, so even if you're blocking the ads you're getting routed to spammier sites.
    • SEOCurmudgeon 1y ago
      Link! Jeez, this is blatantly false.