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Search result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire
by brynnbee 2mo ago
Search result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire planet. It's a shame that Firefox whitelisted these, but I'm sure they did it both because Google pays for their existence but also Apple themselves probably wagged their finger for some reason.
- unselect5917 2mo agoI don't know why people still use Google. They've sold out and literally been documented reducing search quality to serve more ads. I use https://search.brave.com https://search.brave.com by default everywhere and for things even they don't want to show you, there's https://yandex.com https://yandex.com. I only use google as a last resort.
- brynnbee 2mo agoI super rarely use it myself these days, basically just for images, because it still seems like the best of terrible options for images. Everything else is asking ChatGPT to search for me and clicking on sources to verify if its important
- alisadev 2mo agoTry https://4get.ca/ https://4get.ca/ It has all the search engines combined in one (you can simply switch between them and see all available results).